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A77670	A brief survey of the prophetical and evangelical events of the last times: VVherein that which principally is insisted on, is the prophetical little horn, or man of sin, and evangelical beast, and his seven heads and ten hornes. Shewing by the Scriptures what they be, when their rise, what their work, how long their continuance, and their end and ruine. Much differing from former and common interpretations hereupon. Wherein also those prophecies are briefly touched which concern the persecution of the saints, the falling away of the churches, the night of darknesse, the virgins going forth to meet the bridegroom, the mystical whore, the preaching of the Gospel of the kingdome to all the world, and the gathering of the Jewes into their own land. Being a portion of the paines in searching of the holy Scriptures by several members of the congregation of Orpington in Kent. And now published for the comfort of all those that have an interest in the Lord Jesus Christ, and wait, look for, and long after his coming, Tit. 2. 11, 12, 13. / By Capt. John Brovvne a member of that congregation.	Browne, John, Captain.	1655 (1655)	Wing B5117; Thomason E826_18; ESTC R207735	43,228	58

Ages were subdued 2 Kings 16 9 Also by Shalmaness●r his Successor if not Son the rest of the ten ●ribes in the dayes of Hoshea King of Israel are carried captive 2 Kings 17. 3 and 6. These are carried captive into the ●and of Assyria it is not said Cal●ea not but that Caldea and Babylon were under the Assyrian Mona●chy 2 Kings 8 11. Then 〈◊〉 the ●uccessor if not Son of Shalm●ness●r in the fourteenth yeer of King H●zekiah comes up with a great Army against the fenced Cities of Iudah and takes them to whom Hezekiah is willing to submit and therefore sends him great presents and for want of his own borrowes from the Temple But the King of Assyria is not content therewith and therefore sends an Army under the Command of his Captaines Tartan Rabsaris Rabshakeh to Ierusalem to take it either by words or deeds 2 Kings 18. 17. to the end But these not being able to prevail return to their Master the King of Assyria who was warring against Libnah from whence he sends Messengers with a blasphemous Letter to King Hezekiah with which he goeth up to the House of the Lord and prayeth the efficacy whereof was such that that night the Angel of the Lord destroyes 185000. men in the Assyrian Host who returning with the remaining number to his own Land and City Nineveh is there slain ●y two of his own Sons as he is worshipping in the Temple of Nisroch his God and Ezrahaddon his Son reigneth in his stead verse 36 37. Now that the Assyrian alone was the next great Monarch or chief Government of Note in the world to the Assyrian and Babylonian together we doe prove not onely by what hath been related as to what four of those Kings did but also for these insuing reasons grounded upon History and Scripture First from History Pull whom the Scripture mentions 1 Chron. 5. 26. who was but Sardanapulus Lieutenant in Babylon and conspiring with Arbaces another of his Lieutenants in Media who was incited thereunto partly by the Prediction of this Pull and partly by his own in that having had a sight of the Person of his King found him disguised in womans apparel striving to counterfeit an Harlot these two after several battels overthrew him and beseiging him in this great City Niniveh by the overflowing of the River Tysris whereby twenty furlongs of that great wall was overthrown they take the City but not their Master for he finding himself in a lost condition shuts up him●●lf in his Pallace with his Wives Eunuches and all his Treasures and sets fire thereunto whereby both he and they were all consumed After which the Median is content with his own Government of Media but Pull and his Posterity are not with theirs till they get possession of that great City Nineveh which they make the Seat of their Monarchy and therefore is called the Assyrian alone to distinguish it from the First whose chief City in Nimrods time was Babylon Second Reason Because the Scripture mentions a larger extent of dominion to this second Monarchy then unto the first For we doe not find that Nimrods dominion did extend Westward from the River Euphrates that is into Syria if it did it was but of short continuance but this of Pulls doth and that very farre even to the Land of Israel and Iudah whose Lot was bounded by the Mediteranean Sea Ioshua 15. 12. called the great Sea And we find that Media that was under Nimrods posterity and after usurped by Arbac●s is a great part if not all brought under by the Assyrian For Shalmanessar who carries the remaining part of the ten Tribes captive placeth some of them in the Cities of the Medes 2 Kings 17. 6 And the Prophet Ezekiel speaking unto Pharaoh in the Name of the Lord maketh mention of the greatnesse of the Assyrian Ezek. 31. 2. to the 10 verse as also of his fall and ruine by the Caldean chap. 32. 11 12. which makes way for the third Head or Monarchy The third Head of the Beast is the Caldean Monarchy whose foundation was laid in the dayes of Berodach Baladan the Son of Balladan who sent unto Hezekiah King of Iudah both Letters and a Present 2 King 20. 12. which was in or about the fifteenth year of Hezekiah's raign for in his fourteen year Sennacherib the King of Assyria invades Iudea 2 Kings 18. 13. And after the great losse of 185000. he returnes into his own Land In those dayes Hezekiah falls sick 2 Kings 20 1. upon whose earnest prayer and the Promise of God to David for Hezekiah had no Son as yet that the Scripture mentions and Manasseh his Successor was not born in three yeares after for he was but twelve yeers old when he began to raign 2 Kings 21. 1. the Lord ●nds him a Message by the Prophet Esay that he would adde fifteen yeares to his dayes and a sign for his recovery is that the Sun should goe ten degrees backward by which it had gone down in the Dyall of Ahaz 2 Kings 20. 6 11. and the whole raign of Hezekiah was but twenty nine yeers 2 Kings 18. 2. Now though the Scripture be silent as to inform us how Berodash Baladan came to be King of Babylon yet we find that both he and the Caldeans take notice of Hezekiahs sicknesse and recovery with that great sign in the Heaven of the Suns going backward the Caldeans being famous in Astronimie and naturall Astrologie as well as infamous for their divellish Astrologie which was in or about the fifteenth year of his raign which as it was the last of Sennacheribs so it was the first of Berodash for we read in the Scripture of no King of Babylon since Nimrod to this time not but that Babylon was a famous City all along And if we may give credit to Sir Walter Rawleigh of whose extraordinary travell in searching of Histories of all Ages past to the finishing of that excellent piece of his called the Hystory of the World that this Berodash or as he cass him as also the Geneva Translation Merodash took time by the foretop and laid hold on the present opportunity that offered it self which was this Merodash was Lieutenant in Babylon under Sennacherib whose head City was Niniveh who having warres in Syria and Aegypt had levied a very great Army and having been forced to raise his Seige from before Pelusium in Aegypt and that not without some losse and more disgrace through the coming of Tirhaba King of Ethiopia or Arabia to the aid of the Aegyptian he was the more desirous to have had possession of Ierusalem to have retreated unto with his Army but failing of his purpose sends a great part thereof to beseige it with the rest he beseigeth Lachish and afterwards Lib●ah 2 Kings 19. 8. of which Army presently after the Angell of the Lord destroyes in one night 185000. verse 35 upon which he returnes with the remaining

according to what we have already declared from the mouth of the Lord Jesus Math. 24 14. Sixthly When the Gospel or glad tidings of the Kingdome is begun to be preached in the last Age of the world which is a sign of the near approach of that Kingdome then will follow the calling of the two Tribes of Iudah and Benjamin to Ierusalem See what the Lord declares by the Prophet Ieremy concerning this Thus saith the Lord behold I will bring again the Captivity of Jacobs Tents and have mercy on his dwelling Places And the City shall be builded upon her own heaps and the Pallace shall remain after the manner 〈◊〉 So that comparing the latter part of the verse with the former part it will plainly appear that by Iacobs Tents cannot be meant the whole twelve Tribes or the ten Tribes but the two Tribes onely not but that there may be some of every Tribe amongst the two Tribes as there was some did cleave to the house of David when it s said the ten Tribes fell away for these here that shall be brought back are said to be first brought back and then the City is built which bringing back of the ten Tr●bes w●●l not be compleated till a●ter the Saints are taken up when as before that time both Ierusalem and the Temple will be built and Sacrifices offered of which we shall have ●ccasion to inlarge upon hereafter Consider of ●nother Prophesie concerning this in the 12 Zach●r● 6 7 In that day I will make the Governours of Jud●h lik● a ha●th o● fi●e among the w●od and like a torch of 〈…〉 shall devour all the people round about on the 〈…〉 and on the left And Jerusalem shall be inhabited 〈…〉 own place even in Jerusalem The Lord also shall save the T●n●s of Judah first Seventhly After the calling of the two Tribes for to build and inhabite Ierusalem the next remarkable thing that will in those dayes fall out to be is the rising or manifesting of the Beast and ten Hornes or Kings mentioned by the Apostle Iohn in his 17. Chapter of the Revelations In which these following particulers will be worthy of our consideration in the opening of them 1. Who the Beast is and secondly Who the ten Kings are 2. The place from whence they and he will arise 3. What they and he are to doe when risen viz. First before the Saints are taken up and secondly after they are taken up 4. His reign viz. how long time 5. His ruine and how farre they suffer in it For the first the Beast who he is He is that Beast that was shewn to the Apostle Iohn which he describes in his 17. Chapter of the Revelations and 3. verse having seven heads and ten hornes which compared with other Scriptures we shall find him to have several titles or denominations 〈◊〉 which he is discovered viz. he is called the little Horn Dan. 7 8. The vile Person Dan. 11. 21. The Man of Sin 2 Thes. 2. 3. In Iohns description befo●e quoted he hath seven Heads as well as ten Hornes Now that ●e may know who or ●hat these seven heads are if we co●sider well of the Angels interpretation to Iohn Chap. 17 10. and upon search of other Scriptures we shall find that they are seven Governments that should be Supream in the severall Ages of the world from the dayes of Noah after the Floud till the rise of the ten Hornes Five of which Heads or Governments had been before Iohn saw this Vision the sixth was then in being and is now towards its period and the seventh was not then come but is now arising The first Head or Government was the Assyrian and Babylonian Monarchy joyned under one head viz. Nimrod compare the Writings of Moses concerning this Person Government and Country with that of the Prophet Esay and consider how they prove our assertion Moses giving us some account of Noahs Posterity and speaking of that of his Son Ham saith Ham begat Cush and Cush begat Nimrod He began to be a mighty one in the Earth He was a mighty Hunter before the Lord Wherefore it is said even as Nimrod the mighty Hunter before the Lord And the beginning of his Kingdome was Babell and Eresh and Achad and Ca●neh in the Land of Shinar Out of that Land went forth Ashur and builded Niniveh and the City Reho both and Calah Also the same Moses speaketh farther concerning Noahs Posterity And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech And it came to passe as they journeyed from the East that they found a Plain in the Land of Shinar and they dwelt there Now take what Esay writeth concerning this B●hold the Land of the Caldeans this People was not till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the Wilderness They set up the Towers thereof th●y raised up the Pallaces thereof and he brought it to ruine So that Moses gives us to understand thus much that Nimrod was the first mighty One upon the earth whose ●●●gdome was Babell and Ashur went out from thence and built Niniveh which Ashur could be no other then this Nimrod for when he came or journeyed out of the East he came into the Land of Shinar and dwelt there which Land of Shinar must needs be Caldea Babell being built in it as we have now related out of Moses which the Prophet Esay calls C●ldea as you have his words also In brief thus much Nimrod an Assyrian by birth or habitation or both comes into Shinar or Caldea sets up his Kingdome builds Babell his chief Seat and other Cities afterwards goeth out thence into Assyria again and builds Niniveh and other Cities which is the ground of our stiling him by the title of the Assy●ian and Babylonian Monarch And he is the first after the Floud that the Scripture mentioneth but of his continuance or length of his raign it is silent Some Historians doe give some account thereof but with diversity of Opinions concerning it therefore leave the curious therein to search them The second Head is the Assyrian alone under another Family the Line of Nimrod being extinct in Sardanapulus as Sir Walter Rawleigh in his History of the World the first Impression the first part folio 482. doth at large relate whose first King that the Scripture mentioneth was Pull or Phull by whom and Tiglath Pilessar his Successor if not Son the two Tribes and half were first carried away captive See a proof for this out of the Scripture in the 1 Chron. 5. 26. And the God of Israel stirred up the Spirit of Pull King of Assyria and the Spirit of Tiglath-Pilnesar King of Assyria and he carried them away even the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half Tribe of Manassah and brought them unto Halath and Habor and Hara and to the River Gos●n unto this day By whom also the Syrians the great oppressors of Israel in several

make a Province of it In the dayes of Antiochus Epiphanes who began to raign about the year 579 after Rome was built who was he that commanded Swines flesh to be offered on severall Altars in the Temple at Ierusalem the Romans have increased their Dominions so largely as that they take upon them as to command him to depart out of Egypt who had almost subdued that Country and he obeyes In the dayes of Demetrius the Son of Seleucus Philopater elder Brother to Antiochus Epiphanes Iudas Macabeus sends Embassadors to Rome who make a League with the Iewes Macabeus 8. who at that time saith Iosephus f. 315. had conquered Gaule or France Spain Carthage and Greece whose power and dominion from that time groweth up mightily for in the dayes of Pompey all Syria was subdued and he himself gone up into Armenia in pursuit of the warre betwixt the Romans and Tygranes Iosephus lib. 14. ch 4. And in the dayes of Augustus Cesar there came forth a decree that all the world should be taxed Luke 2. 1. which the Author of the Notes in the Bible of the Geneva Translation saith that it was so far as the Empire of the Romans did extend which was of a far greater extent than all the precedent Monarchies did contain especially towards the South and the North West from Babylon and Ierusalem And this was agreeable to Daniels Prophesie chap. 2. 4. who saith that the fourth Kingdome from Nebuchadnesser should be strong as Iron for as Iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things and as Iron bruisetb all those things so shall it break in pieces and bruise it And in his Vision in the first year of Belshazar he seeth these four Kingdomes under severall Types of Beasts but the fourth was different from or unlike to all the rest verse 7. And in the interpretation it is said it shall be unlike to all the Kingdomes and shall devoure the whole earth and shall tread it down and break it in pieces verse 23. And out of this must arise ten hornes which are ten Kings and another shall arise after them and he shall be unlike to the first and subdue three Kings and shall speak words against the most High verse 24 25. So that we find Daniels Prophesie concerning this fourth Kingdome or sixth King in the Apostle Iohns Revelations chap. 17. 10. to have been fulfilled in the time of Christ and his Apostles it then being in its heighth For Master Edward Grimstone in his Emperiall Hystory in the life of Augustus folio 37. saith that the Subjects of the Empire were very obedient unto him and all others sent him Embassadors seeking his favour and friendship offering him their service yea the Indians a people of the remotest parts of the East and also the Scythians which inhabit in the North and the Parthians a people most feirce and untamed sent their Embassodors to him giving security to keep the peace and delivered the Standerds and Eagles taken ●n battell when Marcus Crassus was slain There came also Kings Friends and Subjects to the Empire to Rome to doe him honour as his familiar Friends leying aside their Ensignes and Rovall Robes and many of them built Cities to his Name ●or h●s ●onour calling them Cesareas in remembrance of him 〈◊〉 whose time the Temple of Ianus was thrice shut up which never wa● but twice before from Romes foundation So that his Dominion must needs be of a large extent Rome still being the apitall City or Imperiall Seat and continued so till Constantine removed it who made Byzantium in Thracia scituated between the two Seas viz. the Euxine and the Mediteranean his Emperiall City which was afterward by him and to his Honour called Constantine the Noble and by contraction Constantinople this being done about the year o our Lord Christ 332. Now though Constantine by reason of his removing of his Imperiall Seat from Rome out of the West to Constantinople in the East did much weaken the Imperiall Power yet the Empire was not fully divided in many yeares after but some partings there were before as in the Raign of the Emperour Iovinianus the Successor of Iulian the Apostate about the year of Christ 366. who reigned but seven months he was compelled to make peace with Sapores the King of Persia for thirty yeares leaving unto the said Persian King all the Provinces belonging unto the Romane Empire lying beyond the River Tygris as also some Cities in Armenia and he was not to aid or assist Arsaces King of Armenia And about the year of our Lord 420. the Gaules or French in the West in the dayes of the Emperours Honorius and Arcadius Sons of Theodosius the Great fell off from the Empire and set up Pharamond the Son of Marcomir for their King About which time did the Gothes who possessed a great part of Spain and some part of that Country which is now under the Dominion of the Fr●nch set up Vallia their first King whose Royall Seats were Narbon● and Tholouse Also in the year 440. Hermerick King of the Sueves a little before his death had so pacified the people of Galicia as he raigned over them And about the year 447. in the Raign of Theodosius the second and Valentinianus Emperours the Brittaines in this Island being sorsaken of the Roman aid which they expected against the Picts chose Vor●iger for their King About which time Alaricus King of the Gothe● came into Italy and took and destroyed the City of Rome 1160 yeares after it was built Honorius the Emperour with his Brother Arcadius living at Ravenna which in those dayes was a great and principall City But the great division of the Empire was in the dayes of Constanstine the sixth and his Mother Irene L●o the third being Pope of Rome who at a solemn M●sse being assisted by his Cardinals Crowned Charles the Great King of France born in Germany Emperour of Rome on the 25. of December in the year of our Lord 800 about 468. yeares after Constantine the Great removed his Emperiall Seat out of the West into the East Which division some doe apprehend to be the time that Daniel's Vision of the Image which Nebuchadnezar saw did hold forth as consisting of two legs that were of Iron which implieth strength But how could that be for this division of the Empire instead of strengthning of it made it weaker daily as the that will take a little paines to search in Grimstones Imperiall Hystory from and after this time shall find for the Western Empire is afterwards divided into severall Kingdomes and Governments and the Eastern is quite devoured by the Turks in the year of our Lord 1453. Constantine Paleologus being the last Emperour and slain in the City of Constantinople when it was taken by that famous Turk Mahomet the Great the first of that name and with it the whole Grecian or Eastern Empi●e about 1121 yeares after it had been the

it is a Government that is wholly supported and upheld by Taxes as this Nation wherein we live is and this Nation in respect of Government would not be able to subsist were it not for this supportation for now here is no Treasure to be found nor Revenue left to defray the ordinary Charges incident thereunto much lesse for the maintenance of an Army in the three quondam Kingdomes and a Navy near ten times as great as was ordinarily maintained under the Royall Government Object But was not Augustus Cesar this Person or Government which did subsist in this way for the Evangelist Luke in his 2. chapter 1. saith And it came to passe in those dayes that there came a Decree from Augustus Cesar that all the world should be taxed Answ. It could not be for these Reasons First that Government by Taxes must immediately precede the vile Person and that Government of Augustus was that which Iohn calls the sixth Head five are fallen one is which is this under which Iohn lived and was banished by into the Isle of Patmos and the other is not yet come which then was not and is that we now write of that of Taxes Secondly that Government of Augustus continued some hundred of yeares in its height and was many ages in declining this Government by Taxes shall continue a short space comparatively with the other So that we may safely conclude that this Government which is to be supported by Taxes cannot properly be said to have been in any Nation that was under any of the other six Heads or Governments if not in this Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland 3. Ground of our apprehending that the seventh Head is arising and that among us which is to be maintained by Taxes is the Liberty of Conscience or Freedome to exercise that knowledge which is communicated to any in spirituall things agreeable to the Word of God or not repugnant to it that is granted here whereby the Gospel of the Kingdome or Personall Raign of Christ on Earth may be freely preached among us and so shall passe into all the world afterwards the Sword making way for this Liberty which Freedome or Liberty is granted in no Nation especially upon that account as here In France there is some tolleration but of necessity those that they call Protestants there being a considerable powerful party and so not easily to be suppressed In the United Provinces the Liberty granted proves very advantaglous to them by drawing others that cannot have that liberty in their own Country thither who bring with them Estates but whether poor or rich they doe contribute little or much towards the charge of maintaining them in their civill Liberties But in England it is otherwise the Liberty that is granted and enjoyed is meerly upon the account that light is broke forth and since this Liberty hath been granted and upon this account all eyes that are not wilfully shut from beholding the same have seen that no Nation hath prospered or hath had the like successe that we have had against all our Enemies in so much that the neighbour Nations stand in admiration at it if not tremble to God onely be all the Glory as they have good cause if at any time they shall combine against us for the seventh Head must have as large Dominions as any if not as all the precedent had Now concerning the Lords work which he will doe under this seventh Head we shall find it to be twofold and that in a way of Mercy as he permitted a twofold work to be done under the sixth Head in a way of affliction or persecution The first of which under the sixth Head was the ten persecutions of the Saints which could not be the ten Hornes as some have imagined and the Whore of Rome to be the Beast in the first three hundred yeares after Christ who then suffered under the litterall Babylonish Whore in respect of Worship because they would not sacrifice to Idols whose judgement viz. the litterall Babylonish Whore in respect of Worship was shewn to Iohn in his 17. Revelations 1 2. And that by the rise of another Whore or whorish or false Worship in the 3. verse Iohn being carried by the Spirit into the wildernesse where he saw a Woman that sat upon a skarlet coloured Beast full of names of blasphemy having seven Heads and ten Hornes Whose rise of Worship viz. the spirituall Babylonish or Romish is and hath been the ruine of the first and her practise is by her Emissaries in respect of doctrine to cry down all litterall Sacrifices as killing of Beasts and Fowles c. on●ly a spirituall Sacrifice that they bring instead there of by offering up their Wafer God so called in the hands of their Priests by whom also that absurd doctrine and bloudy to those poor Saints in the Marian dayes that would not believe a lie of Transubstantiation was brought in In opposing of her spirituall whorish Worship how many Saints since her rise hath she made the Martyrs of Jesus being drunken with their bloud at which the Apostle Iohn wondred with great admiration verse 6. And this was the second work that should be brought to passe under the sixth Head in respect of affliction or persecution which power of hers in respect of Worship will continue in the time of the seventh Head for she is to sit upon the Beast with seven Heads and ten Hornes so that she is to have a being after the rise of the ten Hornes who arise not till the seventh Head hath raigned and she shall afterwards be destroyed by them in respect of place or Seat viz. Rome it self if not of worship also verse 16 17 18. Now the Lords work that is to be done under this seventh Head is as we said twofold First the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdome Math. 24. 14. Secondly the calling home of the Iewes into their own Land viz. the two Tribes Iudah and Benjami● to build the City of Ierusalem and the Temple Object Concerning the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdome some it may be will say it hath been preached already in the dayes of the Apostles who went about into all parts of the world according to their Masters Commission in Math. 28. Goe ye into all the world preach the Gospel to every Creature c. and the Apostle Paul in the 10. Romans 18. saith Their sound went into all the Earth which say some is the Gospel spoken of in the 16. verse of that chapter but they have not all obeyed the Gospel Answ. To which we answer That the Gospel of the Kingdome could not possibly have been preached in all the earth in the Apostles time for if it had so been the end of it had been presently that is it would not have been any more preached 2. It could not have been so preached then because a large part of the now known world was not then known or discovered nor in

his royal Seats of which more hereafter Secondly concerning the place from whence the Beast and ten Kings are to arise it will evidently appear to be out of the Dominion that the seventh Head is to have though Daniel seemeth to say that they shall arise out of the sixth Head or fourth Beast in his 7. chapter 23 24 yet compared with other Scriptures it will plainly appear that they will arise out of the seventh Head see the 17. Revelations 11 12. and Daniel 11. 21. but they must arise out of that part of the Dominion that was under the sixth Head or Romane Monarchy in Iohns time for the Dominion of the seventh Head will be of a farre larger extent than ever the sixth was in Iohns dayes in regard of that large part of the world that was unknown and undiscovered in those dayes but now is and shall be brought under the power and government of the seventh Head And in particular the Beast that was and is not which is the Beast compleat with seven Heads and ten Hornes and which yet shall be he is the eight and is of the seven his rise will be in that part of the world that it was at the first viz. in Assyria and in that part thereof which was called Caldea whose chief City shall be Babylon as it was at the first for Iohn saith The Beast that thou sawest was and is not and shall ascend out of the bottomlesse Pit chap. 17. 8. Not that it was then so made manifest or known for Iohn saw not things as they then were apparent to the world but what should be in its time nor that it should be made manifest when the Beast did arise but what it should be afterwards So that his rise is out of that part of the world that should in its time be made manifest to be the bottomlesse Pit out of which Pit the Locusts shall arise that shall plague or sting the Inhabitants of the Earth which have not the Seal of God in their foreheads Revel. 9. 3 4. and in which place the Devill shall be chained up for a thousand yeares Revel. 20. 1 2 3. Now that the bottomlesse Pit shall be in Caldea see what the same Apostle Iohn heard as concerning Babylon what it should be viz The habitation of Devils and the hold of every foul Spirit and a cage of every unclean and hatefull Bird Revel. 18. 2. which compared with the 13. Isaiah 19 20. 21 22. and chap. 14. 22 23. you will find how they agree in their Prophesies and Visions concerning the desolation and destruction of that place I shall to conclude as concerning the bottomlesse Pit which shall be in Caldea and chiefly in Babylon relate a little at large what the Prophet Ieremy hath foretold concerning it whose words are these Therefore the wild Beasts of the Desert with the wild Beasts of the Islands shall dwell there and the Owles shall dwell therein and it shall be no more inhabited for ever neither shall it be dwelt in from Generation to Generation As God overthrew Sodome and Gomorha and the neighbor Cities thereof saith the Lord so shall no man abide there neither shall any son of man dwell therein The third thing to be considered of is what the ten Horns and Beast will doe before and after the taking up of the Saints First before the taking up of the Saints the ten Hornes will arise and hate the Whore and make her desolate c. Revel. 17. 16. and this Whore or Woman is that great City which raigneth over the Kings of the Earth verse 18. viz. in that time that Iohn saw the Vision and wrote this Book and God hath put into their hearts to fulfill his will and to agree with one consent to give their Kingdome unto the Beast untill the words of God be fulfilled verse 17. So that they must first hate the Whore and destroy her before they give up their power unto the Beast Secondly As to the Beast what he will doe First Before the Saints are taken up we find much in the 21. chapter of Daniels Prophesie after his rise As that Armes shall be overthrown with a floud before him and shall be broken and also the Prince of the Covenant or chief of those who had joyned in a League to oppose him and after the League made with him he having obtained his power and dominion at the first by flatteries he shall work deceitfully for he shall come up and overcome with a small people in regard the Nations had no thoughts of a Warre a League being lately made before between them and he shall enter into the quiet and plentifull Province that is into the Land of Canaan whose barrennesse shall then be healed as severall of the Prophets have foretold Esay 32. 15. and in his 51. chapter 3. he faith For the Lord shall comfort Sion he will comfort all her wast places and he will make her Wildernesse like Eden and her Desert like the Garden of the Lord Ioy and gladnesse shall be found therein thanksgiving and the voyce of melody Also the 30. Ieremiah 17. and chap. 33. 6. to the 14. verse Ezekiel 38. 12. and Ioell 2. 19 22 23 24. and he shall doe that which his Fathers have not done nor his Fathers Fathers he shall divide among them the prey and the spoil and the substance a thing which his Fathers nor none of his Predecessors ever did for they took all from the people of the Iewes never divided any among them which he shall doe yea he shall forecast his devises against the strong holds even for a time verse 24. although at that time he doth doe much for them onely to put them into a secure condition In the 25. and 26. verses it is said he shall make warre with the King of the South the Aegyptdan Prince and he shall be betrayed to the vile Person by those that feed of the Portion of his meat but afterwards they shall be reconciled seemingly for they shall talk of deceit or speak lies at one Table verse 27. and both set their hearts to doe mischief but it shall not avail for yet the end shall be at the time appointed and verse 28. He shall return into his own Land with great substance or Riches and his heart shall be against the holy Covenant or people of the Iowes with whom he had before made a League and divided his spoll among them so shall he doe and return to his own Land that is his evill thoughts will then begin to work against them according to Ez●kiels Prophesie in his 38. chapter 10 11 13. for this Gog or Prince of Meshech and Tuball will evidently appear to be be this vile Person or Iohns Beast if we compare Ezok. 38. 18. to the 23. and 39. chapter 17 18 19 20 with the 19. Revel. 17 18. And at the time appointed he shall return and come toward the South at which return of