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A40762 A sober inquiry, or, Christs reign with his saints a thousand years, modestly asserted from Scripture together with the answer of most of those ordinary objections which are usually urged to the contrary. I. F. 1660 (1660) Wing F26; ESTC R5515 86,615 187

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and the ending of the second just precedes the beginning of the third Now our question is of the second of these three periods And in the first place for the Rise of Antichrist or the beginning of the second period or of the thousand two hundred and sixty dayes or the fourty and two months It is the opinion of Mr. Mede that the beginning and ending of them must be taken in some latitude because the Epocha is not certain from whence the same exactly is to commence This also is the opinion of Mr. Leigh in his Book called Excidium Antechristi Also of Mr. Moore in his Idea of Antichristianism lately come out who hath this passage lib. 1. p. 214. A man may not without ground imagine that there may be a Latitude of reckoning in the Solution of the three times and a half or the fourty two months into 126 Decads of days as well as there is of those times and months and that any variation about or within that exceeds not a Decad breaks no square Divine Prophesies being not for the ostentation of Gods Omnisciency for who knows not but that he can compute events to the smallest moment of an houre nor yet for the gratifying of the excesse of humane curiosity but for the use and exercise of his Church Mr. Mede in his Diatriba in a Letter to Dr. Twisse discoursing of the beginning of the 42 months hath this passage The period of the 42 months saith he is likely and most probably to be taken from some remarkable moment in the latitude of their beginning which remarkable moments saith he are more then one and shall be from one of them And he seems to incline to the year four hundred and ten the time when Alaricus took and sacked Rome the Lady of the World this is the remarkable moment of the Political Ruine of the Cesarian Soveraignty This Epocha will bring out the 42 months in the year 1670. To which he adds that the 42 months extend to the burning and sacking of Babylon not the utter extinguishing of Antichrist which he saith shall be some time after as appears ch 19. yet he protests against the precise determination of the time in this businesse Now according to Mr. Mede I guesse the beginning of the 42 months to be about Anno Christi 410. As the Sober Guess also names that time And my Reason is because this seems to be the most remarkable moment of all other in the latitude of their beginning and that for these Reasons Reas 1 The first is that of Mr. Mede because this year Alaricus took and sacked Rome the Lady of the World as Ecclesiastical History witnesseth Reas 2 Because this year all the ten Kings or Kingdoms were sprung up into which the Romane Empire was now dilacerated as Mr. Leigh in his Book called Excid um Antichristi by his great pains in searching the Records of time hath clearly evinced and made out As also Mr. Mede in his Apostacy of the last times and in his Clavis Ap●calyptica Reas 3 Because about this time also sprung up the two horned Beast and Whore of Babylon About this time began the Apostacie of the Church of Rome to new pagan-idolatry and superstition quod est supra statutum or paganochristianity the name only changed As T. L. in his Voice out of the Wildernesse hath cleared in a parallel of 32 particulars And the Sober Guess in many more as you may see at large page 49 50 51 52. Now the Whore or two-horned Beast which is all one is synchronal to the seven-headed with ten horned which is evident in that this two-hourned Beast is the reviver and healer of this seven-headed ten-horned Beast That is an idolatrous Clergie makes again a superstitious and idolatrous Empire or the idolatrous and superstitious Ecclesiastick part makes the Polity such also which is the very image of the Beast before spoken of There were moreover then sacrificers to the dead Adorers and Worshippers of Bell and the Propagators of the worship of the Baalim that is the worship of Daemons or false gods through the World To give only an instance in Innecentius the first who was the Bishop of Rome at this time who did not only himself challenge the Supremacy that is the priority of place suffrage and censures over all Churches which by suit he did obtain of the Emperour Honorius after the death of Arcadius as is evident in our Ecclesiastical History but also brought in the Worship of Relicks The Bishop of Rome saith Jerome against Viglantius Tom. 2. p. 124. Supermortuorum hominam sicunoum nos ossa v●neranda c. effert domino sacrificium tumu●os corum Christi arbitratur altaria c. But who was this Bishop of Rome under the Emperour Areadius when Jerom writ this Invective about the year 406. but Innocentius But Zosimus records worse things of him then this For he saith that Pompey the Governour of the City that he might do that more safely which he desired viz. concerning the worship of the heathen-gods he consults all things herein with the Bishop of the City of Rome c. This is that Innocentius saith Zosimus who truly preferring the safety of the City before his own salvation secretly permitted them herein to do according to their Consciences and his devotion left them to their wills Also under Innocentius the first lying miracles were brought into the Church The Author of the Chronological Compilation Anno 405. mentions one Leapard a Presbyter of whom we reade other things in the Counsels under Innocentius who presenting a gold ring with his offering to St. Agnes that is to the Image she stretched out her finger and took the ring and wears it c. He also brought in Abstinence from meats And constituted the Saturday-Fast to be celebrated because on that day the Lord say in the Sepulcher Moreover Platina adds because his disciples fasted Also concerning fordidding of marriage to Winisters he writes to one Nictorius a Bishop that the Church ought to hold that by all means Priests mingle not with their wives because they are daily occupied about divine worship and the ministerial function Also the same Innocentius writing to one Exuperius an Arch-bishop concerning Presbyters and Deacons among many other things did order and constitute viz. that if any were discovered who had known the form of living sent from Siricius and did not forthwith cast off the lusts of the flesh and all incontinencie c. by which he means the incontinencie of the marriage bed as appears by the Priests among the Jewes going their courses in the Temple their continencie brought for an example to prove it unlawful for Priests to accompany with their wives Platina writes that the same Innocentius gave certain Rules concerning Monks Now this Innocentius began to ascend Peters Chair Anno 402. and departed this life Anno 416. Therefore he lived and did all this at the same time when the ten Kings brake