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A27626	A sermon upon Revel. II, 11, &c. summoning the expectation of the witnesses rising and of the great concurrent works daily shewing forth themselves, and to be compleat by 1697 : together with the surprizing confirmations of the line of time and the 1260 days of years ending 1697 ... / by T. Beverley.	Beverley, Thomas.	1692 (1692)	Wing B2176; ESTC R5617	10,974	18

A SERMON Upon Revel 11.11 c. SUMMONING The Expectation of the Witnesses Rising AND OF THE Great Concurrent Works Daily shewing forth Themselves and to be Compleat by 1697. TOGETHER WITH The Surprizing Confirmations of the Line of Time and the 1260 Days of Years ending 1697. Design'd as an Encouragement of Earnest Prayer With Assured Faith and Hope of the Blessing of God on the Arms of Protestant Princes and particularly of our King and the Change of the State of the Suffering Witnesses in France By T. BEVERLEY Isa 51.9 Awake Awake O Arm of the Lord. LONDON Printed for John Salisbury at the Rising Sun in Cornhil near the Royal Exchange 1692. A SERMON UPON THE Rising of the Witnesses AND THE Great Works that shall therewith shew forth Themselves so as to be Compleated by 1697. Revel 11.11 c. And after three Days and an Half the Spirit of Life from God entred into them and they stood upon their Feet and great Fear fell upon them that saw them And they heard a great Voice fram Heaven saying unto them Come up hither And they ascended in a Cloud and their Enemies beheld them In the same Hour was there a great Earthquake and the Tenth part of the City fell and in the Earthquake were slain seven thousand Names of Men And the Remnant were affrighted and gave Glory to the God of Heaven The second Woe is past c. IT hath pleased God beyond all my former Thoughts on this Scripture Providentially to lead me to such a Review of it as thereby to shew me that the great things of this Context must be Fullfill'd before the End of the 1260 Days If therefore the Calculation I have given be Just and Right and according to Scripture of which I have before and do now offer my Evidences from it so full that I cannot but be Assured my self It is so And hope every considering Person will be also assured as that the 1260 Days shall End 97. And if so there are so great Things to be done from this Year to that Time that we may very well be in a continual Expectation what God will graciously please to do this Year and every following Year till all things are made ready for the Proclamation of his Kingdom as in its Succession that is immediately to ensue at the Sound of the Seventh Trumpet which shall even then begin to sound when those 1260 Days shall end I come therefore to the closest Consideration of this great Portion of Prophecy I have proposed to Discourse of And here I find six great Effects that must needs come according to this Prophecy before the 1260 Days are ended Seeing then there are but five Summers and the sixth wherein the Kingdom of Christ is to enter its Succession and 1260 Days so to End There is great Reason of Expectation and of being every Year upon our Watch to see what God will please to do seeing there are so great things to be done and so little time to do them in How great then may our Expectation be Indeed we may not Limit the Holy One of Israel to any Time who made the World in six days yet according to the General Procedure of Providence which is not in the yet Time of the sixth Trumpet so speedy as it will be in the Time of the Seventh that comes and shall move so quickly and speed all its Events when the sixth is at an End Before that because of the slow Motion of the sixth the Two Woes are said to come hereafter Rev. 9.12 that is by Leisure So thr sixth Trumpet though its Motion shall be more swift at the End Yet it is slower than the seventh which is said to come quickly Not because it shall come immediately after the sixth for so the sixth did after the fifth but because it shall in a short Time accomplish its Great Effects According therefore to the present Procedure of Providence I say there is but so much Time left as is necessary to bring these great Effects to pass one after another with which Prophecy hath charged it self before the 1260 Days end Effect 1. The Spirit of Life must enter from God into the Witnesses in so Remarkable a manner setting Them upon their Feet that All that see shall behold Them with Terror They shall say This is the Finger of God This is from Heaven Something of this hath been done in Ireland and Piedmont but not to such a Degree as that Their Enemies and Others should find so Remarkable a Terror at it Feet in Scripture signifie some very Remarkable Tydings and Events How Beautiful upon the Mountains are the Feet of him that bringeth Glad Tydings It speaketh steddiness and assurance of Success It is said of Christ His Feet shall stand on Mount Olivet It imports Self support Zech. 14 Self-subsistence of the Witnesses and to such a Degree that All that behold them shall say Whereunto will this Thing Grow Observe it therefore whenever you see those suffering oppressed Protestants in France and Piedmont like Feet of Brass now Burning in a Furnace that they may come out Refined and Purified and Rest upon themselves in open View Then Expect and Look for the Approaching Kingdom of Christ It will be as a Signal given as a Beacon fired It will be as the Fig Tree Blossoming and sending forth its Buds Then Lift up your Heads for Redemption draweth nigh Then it will be nigh even at the Doors And why may not this be this Summer if God be pleased by this Discourse to stir up our Faith Hope Expectation and Earnest Prayer our Humiliation Fasting Repentance and Reformation Effect 2. There must be a mighty Voice from Heaven to Call These Witnesses up into Heaven And They shall Ascend Chariotted by a Cloud And this peculiarly Their Enemies shall behold and They shall behold it as the Former also was beheld with Gaze with a Theoric Eye a Consideration a Contemplating Look Now Their being Call'd up to Heaven may signifie Two Things 1. Their being enfranchis'd into the pure Worship of God according to the Gospel which as it is often Represented by the Kingdom of Heaven in other Scriptures so hath in this Prophecy a Secondary Sense of the State of the Christian Church on Earth as a Counter-part or Sample of what is done in Heaven So the Loud Voices in Heaven just after the Text v. 15. are so heard in Heaven that they Resound on Earth so the War in Heaven c. 12.7 was Counterparted in that Famous Battel of Theodosius the Great on Earth with Eugenius and Argobastes So when the Purity of the Witness-Churches is from that time Decreed Established in Heaven It is as if the Witnesses were call'd up into Heaven and Ascended in a Cloud to Enjoy the state of the Ark of Testament in the Temple v. 19. c. 15.5 seen and opened in Heaven speedily after and Answered by a state on Earth and into that great Consessus

or Glorious Assembly Representing the Arche-Type or Original Pattern of a truly Glorious Christian Church-state which we have given Rev. c. 4. c. 5. 2. It signifies the enjoying this pure Church state and Worship with the Favour Countenance and Encouragement of Supreme Power and Authority carrying and bearing them out in what they do For so Heaven in this Prophecy often signifies even Power and Authority Thus Heaven signifies Rev. 12.4 where the Stars of Heaven mean Supreme Princes that the Roman Dragon or Imperial Power Brushed down with his Tail or Train of Armies and there is an Eye of the same sense in the naming Heaven all along in that Context Now for Those who are Trodden down by Power and Strength and have either been Affrighted from Worshipping God according to his Word to the great Wounding of Consciences Harrass'd and Dragoon'd as they speak into Idolatry and Superstition or Galley'd Imprison'd and Tortured to Death for Refusing whenever you shall see these Call'd up by a Loud Voice into Heaven into such an open avowed Worship of God according to his Word and according to their Protestations for Him and have Power and Authority in and with and of Themselves so to do This will be a great Effect of and according to Prophecy and because it is to Lead and Go before the Face of many other great Effects of Prophecy and All before 97. It therefore requires to be done within a Little Time and when you see it Know that it is a Dawn of the Morning-Star and that one of the Foremost in the Train of these Great Effects for the Kingdom of Christ is in your Eye and so that the Rest are coming on and the very Kingdom it self Coming upon us Effect 3. There must according to the Prophecy be such an Earthquake that the Great Cities Tenth shall Fall where by Tenth as I have always declar'd I understand its Decem Principality that Complex of Ten Kings that gives it its Grandeur For they giving their Power to the Beast or Pope of Rome and its Call'd Catholick Church and He bearing up that City and Church that sits upon His Supremacy as on a Mountainous Heighth whenever the Words of God are so fulfill'd in the Beast's having had his Forty Two Moons that they shall give their Power no longer but withdraw their Kingdoms from the Beast that Tenth of the Great City must needs Fall And it is very Remarkable that as here it is said The Tenth of the City Falls first in c. 17. it is said first They shall hate the Whore that is the Church of Rome But then it is intimated that the Reason is the Words of God are fulfilled concerning their giving their Kingdom Power and Might to the Beast for such a Time viz. the 42 Moons So these Two Things are made Reciprocal For whenever They Hate the Whore Then will be a withdrawing their Kingdom from the Beast the Words of God being at the same time Fulfill'd When they withdraw their Kingdom from the Beast They presently will hate the Whore and make her Desolate and Naked But either and both ways the Tenth of the Great City Falls That is the Greatness whose Symbol or Figure in Prophecy is Ten or Tenth because of the Ten Toes Ten Horns Ten Kings made Essential to the Antichristian State by Prophetick Oracles and within this Time Dan. 2. c. 7. even before 97. All these Kings shall thus hate the Whore shall thus Reverse Recall and Reprize their Force Power and Kingdom from the Beast because the words of God will be fulfill'd Some have done it at least in great part All shall do it then together and All shall do it to Perfection And it appears by this Prophecy they shall bring some Ruine and Desolation by Ravage and Fire on Rome it self as a prelude and fore running of that Final Desolation and Fire c. 18. And what will you say when you shall see the Empire Spain Portugal Poland the Catholick as they are call'd Cantons and even France and that first of the Rest do this You will Remember what I have this Day spoken in your Ears and you will then believe the Kingdom of God is coming nigh to you when you compare what I declare to you from the Word of God and what you see come to pass and you will easily allow That according to the usual Progress of Providence if This be to be done by 97 there had need be a speedy Beginning For you at this time I am sure will be more ready to say The Time is too short and strait even already for it to come so soon to pass And yet I must confess either this must be by 97 or the Exposition and Line of Prophetick Time I have given must Fall Effect 4. Seven Thousand Names of Men shall be slain in the Earthquake this mighty Change and Shake of Things There is I make no great Doubt some Allusion in these Seven Thousand to the Sabbatick Number of so great Use in All Things that concern the Kingdom of Christ as it is said Ezek. 39.9 They shall be Burning the Weapons of Gog Seven Years and cleansing the Land of Gog's Remains Seven Months v. 12. But how Admirably also does this set out the Multitude of Names Offices and Places in the Roman Papacy Hierarchy and Grandeur so great a Multitude that One would be Tempted to think the very Letter of 7000 is fulfill'd therein It requires much Learning in those Names of Men to make a Register of their Quality and Number Cardinals Archbishops Bishops Abbots Priors c. are known as Stars of greater Magnitude But there are those so out of common Ken and the Sporades the innumerable Lesser Stars that he must be more than ordinarily Learned that can call them All by their Names Now if you Live to see all these Slain as the Witnesses have been and as yet they lie Slain in France utterly Dispirited and with Them what ever is Deriv'd not to say Spawn'd from Them or bears Allyance or Affinity with Them even among those who are on the Part of that Synagogue of Satan Venerated under the Hoary Vizor of Antiquity shall Fall at the very same Time by 97. or very soon after and They be Bowing and Valing at Philadelphias Feet You will then say I have truly Expounded the words of the Lord to you But if you find no such thing I must lye Down in shame and confusion of Face and own to you I am found a False Witness of God and think my self indeed of all men most Miserable in saying God hath Declar'd he will do such things and by such a time in the sure Word of Prophecy which he hath not Declared nor will do But I have no Fear nor Distrust herein and yet I am very sensible as Jeremy Speaks When the word of the Prophet shall come to pass then it will be known The Lord hath spoken by him So I that pretend to no