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A76493 Positions containing a full account of a Scripture-line of time, in the whole, and from joynt to joynt; together with a judgment according to Scripture prophecy on the present Turkish affairs. Beverley, Thomas. 1690 (1690) Wing B2168; ESTC R170523 21,265 13

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Governour Appointed by the Grecian Emperour looks very Fathally upon that Supremacy as if it were the Appearance of that Idolatrous Supremacy sacred Prophesie calls Bestianism and makes immediately to succeed the Christian Empire expir'd in the West though at first It was not viz. in open Appearance but now began to appear The Smoke of the Bottomless Pit open'd by the Fallen Star and unawares to him the Locusts Posit 7 coming out of that Smoke look too like the False Christianity Idolatry Superstitions v. 2. False Hell of Purgatory enforc'd by Anathemaes Excommunications Curses Darkning the Knowledge of Christ the Sun of Righteousness and the whole Ayr of the Christian Profession And yet had the Smoke not been armed afterwards with the Flames of Nebuchadnezzars Furnace of Persecution compelling to worship the Beast and his Image All had been but Smoke but such a Smoke as might well give Advantage to the False Prophetism the Locusts were poyson'd with to be receiv'd in the World It is most evident about the time of the Worship of Images being setled by general use and established Posit 8 by the second Council of Nice these Locusts of Saracens did more fiercely annoy the Antichristian Christian World viz. After the years 725 and 787. After or out of the Cessation of the Saracens grew up the Turkish or Othoman Power upon the Posit 10 World as a second Woe when the Saracens Locusts like by Five and Five Prophetical Months c. 9.12 13 c. and Five suppose of Intermission coming on and going off had lasted 435 years or from A. D. 622 to A. D. 1057 when the Turkish Power began its play About this time many Servants of God must needs be suppos'd in the depth of Popery to grone Posit 11 under it v. 13. and when the publick daily Worship was taken away to worship privately within the Temple at the Altar of Incense and to cry to Heaven for Relief and so from the four Horns of the Golden Altar the Voice came That the first Rising of the Turks was from near the River of Euphrates is so universally agreed as Posit 12 to turn our Thoughts upon the Four Angels loosed that were there bound c. 9. v. 14 who from Four united into One in the Othoman Family according to History The Great number of Horsemen in the Turkish Armies the lively Symbols of Great Guns and Posit 13 sulphurean Powder just in use at the taking Constantinople their poysonous Tayls of False Prophetism v. 15 16 17 18. v. 20 21. their Prophetical Day Month Year making 395 years from their Rising to the Taking Constantinople the Third part of Men the same Figure used for Imperial Rome before but the killing or extinction of the Empire in the East differing from the darkning it wholly in the West till the Papal Supremacy inlightning it anew and the Impenitency of the rest of Men of the Western Antichristian World after the Judgment of the Eastern or Graecian Antichristians are all so pregnant and agreeable Images of the Turks placing themselves in the Empire of the East as not easily to be refused especially adding the admirable Landscaph of the Reformation Cap. 10. The whole Tract of Mahometan Time from 622 to 1453 before the Reformation running paralel Psit 14 with the most entire Papal Domination shews it a Judgment level'd against that very Domination c. 9. v. 4. with v. 20 v. 21. and set up by God in scorn of that False Christianity to which it bears in so many things an opposite Resemblance one Arm'd False Prophet against another one unreasonable senseless Religion against another viz. Mahometanism against Antichristianism One full of the Worship Angels Saints Images the other in the Zeal of One God denying Jesus Christ. The Forty two Months of Western Empire being reserv'd to the Supremacy of the Beast and his Ten Posit 15 Kings the force of Killing fell on the Eastern Empire necessarily c. 17 all along and on the enslav'd Greek Antichristians who being guilty of the high Pretensions to the same Papal Supremacy in John Patriark of Constantinople challenging it and of its being given by their Emperor to Rome and who by their second Councel of Nice establish'd the Idolatry upon Saints and Images are justly made Hostages to Divine Vengeance till the Execution of Judgment on the Western Antichrist There being to the Turkish Angels an Hour above the Day Month and Year signifying a design'd Posit 16 set Time may very fitly embleme the continuance of their Power and ravage on the World c. 9. v. 15 till near the Fall of the Tenth of the Great City c. and the Glorious Ascension of the Witnesses out of their slain Condition dropping as Elisha their Mantle of Sack-cloth Posit 17 But yet to understand the Turkish Times there must be an exact observation of Prophecy and its measures viz. from their loosing from Euphrates and motion over Countries throughout their Day ●●n 11.41 ●● 43. ●ev 9.18 ● 11.13 14. ●an 11. ● 42. ●ev 16.12 Month and Year till their attaining the top of the Constantinopolitan City and Empire From that time till near the Fall of the Tenth of the Great City Rome the Woe by them was to continue A gradual Fall before that must necessarily be supposed signified in Daniel by Tidings out of the East and North but together with that Fall their Constantinopolitan Empire and Woe must cease and but with that Then by the drying up the River Euphrates at the sixth Vial is intimated their subsisting in their first Euphratean Bounds And from thence spreading as far as they can upon the Glorious Mountains of Judea they are dryed up under the Symbol of the Euphratean Waters that at the Conversion of Israel the way of those Kings of the East may be prepared and in the Battel of Armageddon they come to their End and none shall be able to help them c. Dan. 11. v. 43. with Rev. 16. v. 16 17. Posit 18 We have therefore greatest Reason to pray for and Congratulate the Turkish Falls both as of so Great an Abaddon and Apollyon and also as It is a Pawn and Pledge to us of the Fall of that Diametrical Enemy of the Kingdom of Christ the Antichrist and his Antichristian Church or City to such a Degree that the Kingdoms of the World shall be proclaimed to be the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ. For the Truth of God will certainly hasten the one with the other Posit 19 We have Great Reason to hope a Great Enfranchisement and Conversion of the Eastern Christians and of those Churches at the same Time however Antichristianiz'd now Posit 20 It is also most hopeful The Great Victories granted to the Army of the Christian Name however Antichristianiz'd Rev. 11.14 with c. 17.16 will move the rest of the Ten Kings who have till that time given their Kingdom and Power to the Beast to hate the Whore to
so joyned and seeing the 45 are nearest the State of Blessedness what can they be supposed to have to do with them but as in Execution of Vengeance to their Removal Posit 46 Agreeably in the Revelation the Vials that are plac'd just before the Apocalyptical End must have to do with the Great City with the Dragon as giving his power to the Beast and being Worshipped with Him Rev. 16. with the Beast with the False Prophet with the Gentiles whose Idolatry and Tyranny was represented before in the Revelation as demeriting so great an Execution of Judgment And they must also be in Vindication of the Witnesses in Sackcloath and slain of the Woman in the Wilderness and of the 144000 Sealed and so must look back as far as they Posit 47 Lay back from these 45 Days Daniel's thirty days making the 1260 Days concurrent with the time times and half a time to be 1290 Days and They must have a closer Relation to the 1260 Days and to the taking away the Daily Service c. then the last 45 days had as being so much nearer to them and at farther distance from the Blessed End But yet being removed out of them and nearer to Blessedness as not being the 1260 but 1290 Days They may be well suppos'd loud in Remonstrances and Prayers against all the former Idolatry and Tyranny of taking away c. and with greater Victoriousness than formerly Agreeably in the Revelation the Voices that are plac'd just before the Vials are full of such Remonstrances Posit 48 and Prayers and produce the Vials and are executed by the 144000 who were sealed at the beginning of the 1260 days and by those Instructed by them when They stand with the Lamb on Mount Zion and therefore These Voices look back more wiftly on the 144000 Sealed before the 1260 days began and more fully shew their Concatenation with them Rev. 14.1 but yet they are not so Advanced towards the Glorious State as the 45 the Temple and Ark of the Testimony not being Opened till the Vials Prepared Revel 15. Lay the Distinction made betwixt scattering the Holy People and accomplishing to scatter to the Posit 49 Time and Times and to the Half Time and seeing the scattering must needs be first and longest and the Accomplishing must needs be last and shortest Dan. 12.7 we have Reason to make a Distinction betwixt the time times and Half Time and to lay the longest scattering to the time and times and the Accomplishing to the Halftime and so to find somewhat of the last Efforts to scatter but yet cut off Accomplished or finished and so the Holy People the daily Service lifting up themselves and the Desolating Abomination casting out Agreeably in the Revelation when we find the Time Times and Half Times Expounded into Posit 50 1260 Days and three days and a half we have Reason to lay that breaking out of Divine Power and Truth in the Voice of the Roaring Lyon Rev. c. 11. c. 10. the Thunders uttering their Voices to the Morning of the Half time and the Half day and to the last 180 of of the 1260 days and though there may be the last Efforts and a Comprizing of the Tyranny in some parts of the Reformed Churches as given in three days and a half yet that it can be neither Universal nor long Lay the Oath in Daniel ushering in the Time Times Half a time that so solemnly resolves They Posit 51 shall be to the Oath in the Revelation that Time shall be no more viz. after the Half Time that the Oaths may not contradict one another but that in the days of the Seventh Angel when he shall sound All shall be Finished and we see Reason why the last 45 and 30 making 1335 should be deem'd Joynted more particularly into the last 180 Days of the half time then into the 1080 of the time and times because their is so great an Affinity betwixt the Reformation and the further Preparations to Christ's Kingdom as there is a greater nearness in Time to the End As a further Assurance of the close Connexion of the 180 Days of the half time and the 30 and Posit 52 45 making 1260 to be 1335 There is a common Character though of several Distinctions Dan. 12.10 Rev. 16. extended upon them All at that declaring the Words Sealed Many shall be purified and made white by the Reformation and yet tryed in a Furnace of Martyrdom The Wise shall Vnderstand by the Voices and Vials and come out as God's People from among the Wicked but the Wicked will all along do wickedly and not Vnderstand but more especially they shew it in the time of the Vials when they Repented not but Blasphaem'd It is no wonder then to behold Antichristian Confidence Obstinacy and Obdurateness Consider yet Daniel's complaint that He understood not and that Declarations of the Words closed Posit 53 and Sealed till the End and agreeably the Thunders Sealed v. 9. and the Book bitter in the Prophets Belly in the Revelation Rev. 10.9 and we see the reason why the Half time is made most of a piece with the time and times the 180 with the 1080 Days viz. because the power of the holy People remain'd still scatter'd in great part the daily Sacrifice not Restor'd nor the Abomination of Desolation fully Remov'd the Beast and his City yet Regnant the Witnesses in Sackcloth the Woman in the wilderness and the 144000 Sealed and not on Mount Zion And so we see them still the Half time of the 1260 Days being not expir'd by Ten and therefore the Reformation is not Perfect as it shall be at that end of them when the Thunders are unsealed in the Voices The time and times must needs be the continued Time of All these Evils of Antichrist during Posit 54 which the Book of the Kingdom was Sealed and they must run back to the time of the second Sealing after the seven Seals Opened and the Oath There should be time times Half time which was the second stop of Christ's Kingdom in his Servants viz. the 144000 Sealed under the Gentiles and the Bestian Tyranny c. Hereby we may understand the whole Time of Sealing its signification and the Cessation of it Posit 55 The Book Sealed is the Book of Daniel's Prophecy of Christ's Kingdom The Times of Sea●ing were when that Kingdom had Right to Appear and was Seal'd up in reserve for Future Time 1. At the Resurrection and Annointing with the Holy Spirit on the Apocalyptical Lord's Day Daniel was then bidden according to his former Vision to seal Prophecy at the Annointing the most Holy and to seal it to the time of the End Accordingly the Book is seen Sealed in the Hand of Him on the Throne And it was given to Christ to open Gradually to his Kingdom Dan. 9. ●2 4 And so the Course of time next to the 70 Weeks runs on in the Opening the seven Seals