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A52999	A new systeme of the Apocalypse, or, Plain and methodical illustrations of all the visions in the Revelation of St. Iohn written by a French minister in the year 1685. and finisht but two days before the dragoons plunderd him of all, except this treatise ; to which is added, this author's Defence of his illustrations, concerning the non-effusion of the vials, in answer to Mr. Jurieu ; faithfully Englished.	French minister.	1688 (1688)	Wing N780; ESTC R40048	187,478	388

ill condition And this holds more tru'ly in reference to a Political Body than a Natural Moreover whereas 't is a Spiritual Empire that is spoken of namely Antichristianism the judgments that are to be executed upon it are to be physical and penal evils which as punishments are to weaken and subvert it The judgments of God against an Empire whose criminalness from the very nature of it lyes in its Errors Idolatries Tyranny which comprehend in them the corruption of manners cannot consist in Evils of Offence But the first four Vials according to the sense put upon them by Mr. Iurieu import Evils of Crime and not of punishment and do strengthen and advance that Empire in all that is essential unto it instead of depressing and enfeebling it For it never had so great power and splendor as it enjoyed from the tenth Age to the 14th that is from the effusion of the first Vial till the pouring out of the 4th So that Mr. I. hath very ill applied the Events which he mentioneth to the 4 first Vials His 2d Answer is that the prodigious advancement of the Papal Authority which raised Antichristianism to its height proved a step to its ruin If the Popes saith he had continued within the bounds wherein they were in foregoing Ages and had not medled in the affairs of the world to dispose of them at their pleasure the Roman Sea would not have been known to be Antichrist But thereupon that Truth became so palpable that all mankind grew convinced of it This Answer indeed is subtil but is not of that force as to deceive those who make a right use of their Reason All Earthly Empires have their beginning their progress and their perfection according as it pleaseth the providence of God to suffer them to increase and when they are risen to such a height that they can advance no farther they then of themselves fall into decay and ruin And therefore the Antichristian Empire being Earthly 't is not strange if we find the like fate and parallel decay to befal it But Right Reason cannot fathom how an Empire should be punished and depressed by the plagues of divine justice at a time when 't is advancing and mounting to the highest pitch of its grandure We may as reasonably say that what the School of Hypocrates stiles an Athletick health is a punishment of God because according to the judgment of Physicians whosoever possesseth it is in danger to lose it and fall into some mortal disease This nevertheless is what Mr. Iurieu is forced to affirm because he cannot otherway's maintain that the first four Vials are already poured out Let us now come to the fifth Vial which is to be poured forth upon the Seat of the Beast This Vial saith Mr. Iurieu fell upon Rome which is the Seat of the Beast when she lost her Sun that Sun which is spoken of in the fourth Vial when she lost her Pope and the Papal Court which as a whirlpool drew unto her all the Riches of Europe Clement V. having left Rome in the year 1305 and fixed his Residence at Avignon the City which had been the Mistris of the world remained desolate and became a Wilderness for the space of 74 years and this transferring of the Papal Seat to Avignon was the cause of that Schism which lasted till the year 1415. The Anonymous Author had said that the translation of the Popes Seat from Rome to Avignon and what ensued thereupon was not an Evil of that extent and greatness as to answer the whole force of the words of the Prophecy The contrary whereof Mr. Iurieu should have shewn which he hath not done Wherefore that Author doth again say that the removing of the Papal Court to Avignon with all that followed upon it beareth no proportion to the greatness of the judgment of God predicted to fall upon the Seat of the Beast under the fifth Vial. For by that Rome is to be totally destroyed and the 18th Chap. of the Revelation which describeth her destruction is nothing but a Commentary upon that Vial as the 13th Chap. is a Commentary upon the 8th and 9th Chapters which are those of the Trumpets When Rome is destroyed the Papal Kingdom will lose much of its splendor and strength which is the reason why 't is said that his Kingdom became full of darkness because a great many of the followers of the Beast will forsake him upon the seeing the destruction of his Seat. Upon that they will open their eyes and be converted and they who continue to adhere to popery will gnaw their tongues through despite grief blaspheme God by saying that he hath failed in performing his word by which he had promised that Rome should forever be the Infallible Rule of Faith the Centre of Unity and the Fortress of Truth But we must hereafter speak more amply of this fifth Vial. Let us proceed to the sixth Vial which falleth upon the River Euphrates and which drieth up its waters that a way may be prepared for the Kings of the East Mr. Iurieu following the learned Mr. Mead explaineth it in reference to the irruption of the Turks whose irruption he will have to be a judgment of God against the Antichristian Kingdom So that he pretends this sixth Vial to be contemporary with the 6th Trumpet which described this Invasion of the Turks I do acknowledg that he hath reason to say that the Turks are spoken of both under the Sixth Trumpet under the 6th Vial seeing the Turks have possessed themselves of near one half of the Roman Empire which is Daniels 4th Monarchy whose History is carried on by St. Iohn But he ought not to confound the 6th Trumpet with the sixth Vial as if they were only one and the same Vision For there is as much difference betwixt these two as there is between the time of building and the time of destroying between the Patience of God which suffereth and permits his Enemies to become great to the prejudice of his own Kingdom and his Vengeance which ruineth overwhelmeth and abolisheth his Enemies Those two Empires namely that of Antichrist and that of the Turks were formed and grew up under the Trumpets whereas the Vials threaten to beat down and overthrow them This the Anonymous Author lays for a foundation that cannot be shaken and upon this he defends against the learned Mr. Mead that the drying up of Euphrates signifieth not the Irruption of the Turks upon the Antichristian Empire but on the contrary the end both of the Turkish Empire and of the Mahometan Religion 'T is the prophetick way of speaking to understand Nations by those Rivers that run through their Countries and the destruction of Nations by the drying up of their Rivers This appeareth by Isaiah Chap 19 v. 4 5. where the Lord saith he will deliver Egypt into the hands of a fierce King and the waters shall fail from the Sea and the Rivers shall be

Antichrist that the Papal Empire is the Portraiture of the Beast with two Horns that the Romish Church is the Picture of Babylon the Great that the spirit of persecution that reigneth in the Papacy is that of the Dragon and of Satan and that suffering has been the character of the true Christian Church for above these 1500. years Moreover this Dispute will influence many to Read and Study the Revelation who usually read no more of it but the three first Chapters being afraid to look into the rest Finally this Dispute will beget Emulation and give occasion for new discoveries and for the making of new Systemes I am not ignorant what the Illustrious Moros heretofore said in his Eloquent Panegyrick upon Calvin namely that that great man had Expounded all the Books of the Scripture except the Revelation which his not doing of was an excellent Commentary This is a piece of wit where we may see an ingenïous draught of the Eloquence of that admirable Orator but the Theologues of our time ought not to be discouraged by the Example of the incomparable Calvin We know that Doctor who had written so many other learned Commentaries was capable to have explained the Revelation as well as he had done other Prophesies And if he did it not 't was either because he thought he could employ his time better or because he had designed to do it before he should die which his dying so soon hindred the Execution of which hapned when he was but ●5 years old or a few day 's over 'T is to be hop'd that this Dispute will cause many through Emulation to lay out their labours upon this Divine Book For tho they who have preceded have for the most part been incomparable men both by reason of the profoundness of their Learning and the greatness of their wit except the Author of the Illustrations who is and will alway be unworthy to be named yet there is ground to hope that they who come after will see a great deal farther than the former have done as a Pygmee mounted on the shoulders of a Giant is able to see farther than the Giant himself And is not all this of more considerable advantage than all the Scandal can be of prejudice that some curious Spirits have taken at the Dispute between Mr. Jurieu and the Anonymous Author And as to the advantage which some sear this Dispute will afford the Papists both the Catholicks that expect benefit by it and the Reformed that fear it will find it to be only chymerical and not real Therefore I must again repeat that it is not about an Article of Faith that these disagreeing Authors contend To say the Vials Are poured out or that they are Not poured out do's equally leave the Reformed Doctrine in its perfection and integrity And how Learned soever he may be and how much soever conversant in the Art of Sophistry that attacks the Reformation from thence he will not be able to make the least breach upon it Would it not be extreamly pleasant to see a Doctor carrying the Mark of the Beast libellously triumphing by reason of this Dispute betwixt two Protestants and in the mean time taking no Notice of all those Sections where both these Author's do unanimously and demonstratively prove that the Church of Rome is Babylon the great that the Papal Empire is the Beast with two horns that the Pope is the Son of Perdition the False Prophet and the seventh Head of the Dragon and that the City of Rome is the Seat of the Beast Herein both the Authors have just matter of glorying and as for that little difference between them concerning the Effusion of the Vials they have ground enough for Reprisals and a large field for recrimination upon the account of the difference betwixt the Jansenists and the Molinists and between the Theologues of Italy and of other places upon the one hand and those of France upon the other who have made a Sacrifice to Louis the great of the Infallibility of the Pope of his Supremacy over Councils and of his power over that Soveraigns Person Temporal Rights That I may not speak of an infinite number of differences amongst Papists in reference to other Subjects And these are all fundamental points in the Romish Religion and in reference to which they cannot differ without one side 's falling into Heresie But whether a Reformed Divine believe the Vials to be already poured out or believe that none of them are yet poured out he is in both cases equally Orthodox and the Reformed Religion is by reason of none of them lyable to be impeached So that I may conclude that this Dispute if it be rightly apprehended can do no prejudice and that it is of advantage upon many accounts that the Anonymous Author should defend his opinion about the Non-Effusion of the Vials which Mr. Jurieu hath attack'd in his Apology And this he intends to do as becomes a Reformed Divine and as a Lover of peace so that all who read his Defence shall have cause to be satisfied except it be such whom Interest and a false Zeal keep united to the Papal Religion He were neither an honest nor a Wise man who maintaining the Non-Effusion of the Vials should from thence take occasion to vent his passion against a Writer whose labours are of wonderful Edification to the whole Protestant Party So that if there occur any Expressions which may seem somewhat rude as 't is not true it is false and a few more of that Kind he doth declare that they are only intended against the matters in debate and that he would not have used them were they not customary Terms in all Polemical writings and did not the common usuage render them necessary and in a manner inevitable Mr. Beverly in his Scripture-Line of Time in Quarto printed at London 1684. speaking of the Vials page 187. says BUt that we may know they are not yet begun whenever they begin they move with so swift a Course that it is impossible there should be any delay in them after they are begun or that any of them should be enter'd and not all of them in their Order Swiftly pour'd out A DEFENCE OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS Upon the APOCALYPSE Of St. JOHN concerning the Effusion of the Vials MR. Iurieu having in his Accomplishment of the Scripture-Prophesies asserted the first Six Vials to be already poured out and that the seventh hath been pouring forth all along since Luther's Reformation he could not indure that the Anonymous Author of the Illustrations upon the Revelation should endeavour to prove that all the Vials are still full of the wrath of God and that all of them remain yet to be poured out tho he had therein no design of contradicting Mr. Iurieu more than he had several other Divines that before him had been of the same opinion However Mr. Iurieu thought fit to attacque that Author in his Apology in which he attempts two