THE GOOD HOPE THROUGH GRACE The Jubilee of the Kingdom of Christ shall come upon the Counterfeit Jubilee of Rome and before the end of the Following Year 1700 shall begin to bring under Desolation that Great City and its Papacy Therein Uniting the Year 1697 with 1700. according to Prophecy Humbly Presented to the Faith and Prayers of all Sincere Protestants By T. BEVERLEY Rev. xviii xix In one Hour is she made Desolate LONDON Printed for William Marshall at the Sign of the Bible in Newgate-Street and John Marshall at the Bible in Grace-Church-Street TO THE HONOURABLE His much Honoured Sir Samuel Barnardiston Honoured Sir ALthough I must ever Acknowledge a long Series of very great Obligations to your Friendship and Favour for me Yet That is not the Sole nor so much as the Principal Reason of the presenting this following Discourse to your Acceptance The more Due Reasons of that are That by the Freedoms you have Allowed me of Conversation with you I have very undoubted Evidences of your sincere Love to the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ the Lord of Glory in its present Spiritual Evangelical Administration and in its Gradual Illustrations of it self in Glory Promised and Foretold to the latter Days And yet more particularly as in All Things I had observed your Patriottal Spirit your Great Love to your Country the true English Spirit so your Great Love to Protestancy and Bewailing That no Greater Liberty and Security could be procured for the Suffering Protestants beyond the Seas and particularly in France But I hope God supports you in so long a Life to see the Openings of his Kingdom And That your Honourable Lady whom I have long observed the Truest Consort of All the Varieties that God hath been pleased to Dispensate to you may Rejoyce with you in that so Great Joy is the Humble Earnest Prayer of Most Honour'd Sir Your most Affectionate Humble Servant in our Great Lord T. BEVERLEY The PREFACE to the Favourable Protestant READER THE Discourse following I Humbly Present as the Result of the most Close Researches into the Sure Word of Prophecy after the so great Disappointment of the Hopes I had at the Year Ninety Seven I Humbly Acknowledge to Infinite Grace it gave me not the least Doubt of the Truth and Divine Authority of sacred Scripture or particularly of the Prophetic Scriptures of Truth which the Divine Spirit takes such care to assure Are the True Sayings of God and that These Sayings are Faithful and True And I Humbly Bless Him I have besides all those Great and Weighty Arguments that so many Holy and Learned Men have Established the Autopisty or self-evident Diviness of Scripture upon I have the particular Assurance of so Admirable a Prophetic Scheme and Frame God hath given me that I am sure none but Infinite Prescience could ever have Projected or so curiously have Wrought and Inlaid and only to be Found by Compare of one Prophetic Scripture with another and when they are so matched one with another the Admirable Artifice is seen Now this very Adorable Workmanship led me to Ninety Seven by Prophetic Iconisms or Images adjusted to Prophetic Numbers of Time and justified and verified by Matters of Fact or as Prophecy calls them Effects of Vision in Ez. 12. 23. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Matter of Fact of Vision universal History and Chronology Corresponding to them And in the very last Year after all Hope seeming to be past it pleased the Lord to shew me that Character of Time stiled Indictions or Fifteens of Years even studiously observed in adding 2 and 3 Fifteens to 1260 made up of so exact Dan. 12. Fifteens making them 1290 1345 All which sure could never be by Chance This Note of Indiction I say what I had always accounted I found enclapsed whole Prophetic Time from Solomon's Death to the Blessed Time at the end of the 1335 Days all which make 2730 Days â—â— Indicted As any one versed in Accomptancy may easily find And the very first the 390 Days of Ezekiel's bearing Judah's Sin begin in set Indictions Hereby I have found Ninety Seven established by even Arithmetic Demonstration as I have made out in a Treatise on purpose Printed 1699. Vpon all this I could not remove from Ninety Seven However so great a Failure looked so unfavourably upon it What therefore God upon earnest unwearied Prayers and so strict Enquiry aâ— the Holy Oracle was pleased to give in the Night at the House of an Elect Lady near Sarisbury and to enable to Cultivate and Improve I have here given to public view consisting of Four Heads 1. The Certainty of a most Stupendious Judgment to be executed on some City descyphered by Babylon and this City proved to be Rome 2. That the Time of this Judgment to be executed is at some pompous Time of Babylon such as the Holy Year or Jubilee and great Princes appearing for it 3. That whereas the Time this Judgment to be Executed was most properly Ninety Seven there is by a curious Artifice of Prophecy a Reserve of 3 Years and a half reaching to 1700 With an Answer of Objections to search of Time from Mistakes 4. That such a Reserve is called God's Infraction or Breach of Promise or his Abruption and Breaking off the Series and Contexture of Begun Providences the Notions of which are opened and applied to the present Case there are also Reserves in a way of Wisdom and Goodness from Ninety Seven And all recommended to Faith and Prayer under Divine Blessing and Humbly laid at the Feet of the Supreme Palmoni or Wonderful Numberer of Time the Apocalyptes or Revealer the High-Priest or Man Cloathed in Linnen and the Apostle of our Profession That He may judge whether his Word or not To Him God over all Blessed for ever be Glory for ever Amen THE JUBILEE OF THE Kingdom of CHRIST Coming on the Counterfeit JUBILEE of ROME Rev. xviii vii viii She saith in her Heart I sit a Queen and am no Widow and shall see no Sorrow Therefore shall her Plagues come in one day Death and Mourning and Famine and she shall be utterly burnt with Fire for strong is the Lord who judgeth her THE Intention of the following Discourse is to give Encouragement from this Scripture first then to excite and even arouse the Protestant Zeal Faith and Hope and to oblige the earnest Prayers and Supplications of the Reformed Churches and Nations and humbly to beseech the Princes and Governments of them by their Commands and Examples so to lead the way that we may all Rev. 6. 10. cry out with the loud Voice of the Souls under the Altar How long Lord Holy and True dost Thou not avenge the Blood of thy Servants on Them who dwell on the Earth which is a Prophetick Periphrase of Pagan Rome first and then of Rome Antichristian And this at a Time whereunto the Divine Spirit hath directed us so plainly and specially to
Collineation of Prophecy together with the Plain Undeniable Encouragement of the Text I am upon to stir up the Earnest Prayers and Humble Waitings of All his Servants Loving and Looking for his Kingdom to see what God will please to do this Year Oh how Great will his Goodness be herein and beyond this I will not dare And if the Lord be pleased to Honour this Enquiry with his Great Works I will therefore propose these Six Heads to insist upon in order to so Great Ends. 1. I will consider what is to be said concerning Ninety Seven with Relation to the Great Events I have assign'd to it 2. I will shew that there are Reserves in Prophecy in some Cases within it self of some further Time that shall lye within the most Known Noted and Expected Time and though it Reach out beyond it it is yet United as One Time with it and so it will be found in the Times now before us 3. This shall be Endeavour'd to be made out That in such a Case there may be found in Prophecy a Curious Artifice or Contrivance of the Divine Spirit of it that there shall be an Equipoize of it that may without Injury to it be inclin'd the one way or the other by the Hand of Interpretation And though that Blessed Spirit the Author of Prophecy most Certainly Fore knew to which it would be by Providence Determin'd yet without Immediate Revelation from Himself no Humane Understanding could Determine All which shall be particularly shewn in this Instance between 97 and 1700. 4. I shall observe with Scripture-Authority That when there is a Delay of Events and Effects of Mercy beyond the Principal Time most Openly held out in Prophecy it is call'd Infraction or Breach of Promise And when Providence Retracts what it had Begun and given some Essays of It is call'd Abruption or Breaking off what was so Begun And That Sin is the Demeritorious Cause in Both These Cases and herein also a particular Application to the present Case shall be endeavoured 5. That the Certain Determination of a Time Accessory and in Delay of the Principal Time is in neither made doubtful or Incertain but it carries the more Forcible Assurances from the Delay upon that further Time And this is also Reduced to the present Case 6. That the Closest Enquiries into these Things according to the Word of God is on no True Account of the Matter a Blame-worthy Presumption but encourag'd by Scripture Head 1 st With Relation to Ninety Seven Past I must take the Humble Boldness to say I have made a Review upon my whole Prophetic Scheme Backward and Forward and considered the mutual Respects to and Configurations of Prophecy one with another and their Just Spaces of Time and could find nothing that should shake my Assurance but had it much more Confirm'd by that Plerophory or Full Assurance of Understanding arising from the whole Prophetic Line being from Solomon's Death compacted under that Chronologic Period of Indictions or Fifteens of Years as I have most Fully in a Discourse on that Subject made to appear even to the End of the 1335 Days or the Blessed Time So that I cannot remove from Ninety Seven as that Central part of Time in the Prophetic Line without distrusting the Truth of Human Faculties and even Arithmetic Demonstration But being very well Aware of this Great Pressure upon me That seeing the great Effects I expected at that Time did not appear It must necessarily be inferr'd That either the word of Prophecy which is to be abhorr'd is not sure Or that Ninety Seven is not the Time Prophecy hath Directed us upon For it cannot be the Time if it be not Illustrious with those mighty Events as the Great Effects of Vision On this therefore I most Humbly besought the Lord that he would clear this Difficulty to me concerning which I cannot but have Greatest Searchings of Spirit and Thoughts of Heart And it hath pleas'd Him and doth still please him to Impress much on my Thoughts That the Three Days and a Half Assign'd to the Witnesses Lying Dead in the Streets of the Great City Should according to the Prophetic Standard be as Three Years and a Half laid to Ninety Seven And then shall those Mighty Works expected shew forth themselves But that this may not appear Fancyful or Enthusiastic I am obliged to turn my self every way to the Law and to the Testimony As the Prophets Searched no doubt throughout the Sacred Records to find What or what manner of Time The Spirit of Christ 1 Pet. 1. which was in them did signify So that I may find How these Three Days and a Half may be so added to 97 as to be Consonant and Agreeable with Scripture and Prophetic Measures and particularly how it may be Reconcil'd with what I have Found and can yet find no Reason to Retract concerning 97. Head 2. I will come therefore to shew That there are Reserves of Prophecy in some Cases within itself and that it sets a further Time when it hath First set any Time more open and in view and that further Time Reaches out beyond it It is yet but as one Time United with it And so it will be found in the Time now before us Concerning two such Times United as into one I would set in full and open view to Run on every occasion into Consideration these Rules to Judg of them by which have been already Intimated 1. The Principal Time is held out more clearly and openly The other by way of Reserve is given as a Mantissa or Surplusage or as an Epitome or Recollection of that Time and cannot be found but by closest Attention to what hath been before Revealed Or by New Revelation 2. When such a Reserved Time is the Principal Primary Determined Time is not Removed from its Dignity But it is alway Decorated or Graced with offertures of some very Great Events And though the further Reserved Time is made most Illustrious with the whole Constellation of Events yet that Surplusage or Consummation of Time Rests upon the Principal as its Basis and Foundation both for Time and also for those Great Events Dan. 12. 4. 3. When such a Reserved Time is it is Generally a very short Time with Relation to the Time that went before that Principal Time and was to End in it 4. When this Reserved Time is Expired God is pleas'd so to order It shall never be Transcended or Exceeded but the whole of Events designed shall be Compleated at it 5. This lengthning out Principal Time by such a Reserve or Mantissa of Time it is either in a way of Wisdom and Goodness for Gracious Reasons towards his Churches Or it is in Justice and Displeasure against the undue and unsuitable Frame and State of his People to such Mercies as that Time designed should have brought forth 6. When it is in a way of Displeasure It is Express'd by a word that Imports Infraction
look for it as at a proper Season God hath forescen and singled out for the Execution of his Judgment on Babylon even this her Enchanting Jubilee when she says I sit a Queen I am now on a Throne giving out my Pardons and Indulgences I am no Widow nor shall know the lofs of Children Behold from all Parts how they gather about me at this very time And at the time of so violent a Persecution upon the Servants of God making the same Protestation with our selves against the Papal Idolatry Superstitions and Tyranny If we are not concern'd at such a time as this we have only a Name to live as Protestants and the Reformed but are dead as God Charges upon the Church of Sardis the Prophetical Emblem of the Churches stiled the Reformed We have forgotten how we Received and Heard in that so great Appearance of God by the Rev. 3. 1 2. first Reformers and Princes will too sadly seem to have lost that first Protestant Spirit c. which acted those Princes in the Transactions at Spire Am. 1529. Oh that therefore we might Remember Hold fast and Repent And if there were a Spirit pour'd out from on high upon us a Spirit of Prayer who knows but that in the midst of this false Jubilee These two things Widowhood and loss of Children Alienation of Princes and People might come on this Mystic Babel in one Day in one Moment If we could wrestle with God as Jacob these Two Things would certainly come upon Her in their Perfection as on Esay 47. 8. that Babylon of Old for the Multitude of her Sorceries and Enchantments in this very day of her Jubilee To this very purpose I will draw out from the Text as it stands in connexion with This the Former the Following Chapters Six great Propositions and then argue further upon them in compare with other Scripture Prophecies Proposition 1. There is undeniably a great Judgment denounced by God and largely described upon some City Figured by Babylon the Great that must most certainly be Executed in its own Time and upon the City designed according to the sure word of Prophecy Cap. 1. 1. The Revelation of Jesus Christ that God gave to him to shew to his Servants things shortly that is with great speed from that very time it was given to come to pass successively till the Everlasting Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ in comparison of which all time is short Now because this Judgment cannot yet as will appear be possibly supposed to have come to 1 Cor. 7. pass it must yet come to pass And because so much hath all along and for so very long time been coming to pass according to this Prophecy and yet this Judgment hath not been Executed the Execution of it must needs therefore be very near Prop. 2. There are Infallible Characters fixed by the Prophecy in these Chapters before us on the the City so denounced upon assuring this City is the present Papal Rome For if Rome be the City Characteriz'd as it is now Papal it is that City so threatned by this Judgment For the Characters and the Judgment are inseparable Now Rome will appear to be the City Characteriz'd and therefore on it must the Judgment here written be Executed Prop. 3. It is one of the great Glories of this Judgment that the first coming of it into Execution shall be with great suddenness and surprizal and when very Few stiled by Christ the Few Names in Sardis have a Thought or Apprehension of any such thing One Day one Hour one Moment as of Ancient Babylon speak the very great Velocity of the Judgment Prop. 4. The Princes that at this time Bear up the Grandeur and the Haughtiness of Papal Rome by giving their Power and Kingdom to the Beast called therefore His Horns shall be by the Lamb King of Kings and Lord of Lords so overcome as to be made Instruments in the Execution of the Judgment in such Parts and Degrees as the strong Lord who Judgeth shall Commission them unto which shall highly Exalt and make Illustrious the Judgment As an Indication of this it is said C. 17. 16. The Kings shall hate the Whore shall make her Desolate and shell eat her Flesh and shall burn her with Fire and in this Text her Plagues are Death and one concurring with the other Mourning Famine and burning with Fire Prop. 5. The Greatness and the sudden Invasion of this Judgment as denounced by God are uncontroulably to be demonstrated not only as to the possibility but the certainty of both as from the Truth of the Lord who hath so long ago denounced it so from the Wisdom and Omnipotency of the strong Lord that judgeth Prop. 6. The Divine Prescience and Wisdom hath chosen out a Time and decreed it for the Execution of this Judgment when Babylon shall shew it self in its Pride its Pomp its Presumption Security For it is when she shall say I sit a Queen and shall see no Sorrow and 't is most undeniable its Jubilee is such a Time and when Great Princes shall so be at her Devotion as for her sake with such a violence to persecute and Protestant Princes stand by and have nothing to say against it Prop. 1. I begin with the first Proposition that the Judgment here forewritten must most certainly be executed That there is a great Judgment here described and denounced on some City Figur'd by Babylon the Great is most uncontestable every word in the Foregoing and this Chapter assures it and in the following Chapter we have most solemn Doxologies and Thanksgivings upon it In Cap. 17. 1. The Vision begins thus John is called to come to the Angel who would shew him the Judgment of the Great Whore In this C. 18. 1. Another Angel having Great Power and with whose Glory the Earth shone Appears and he cry'd mightily with a loud Voice Babylon the great is fallen is fallen certainly and irrecoverably Fallen and so the Vision goes on in the most dreadful Expressions and Pourtraies of a Judgment most stupendious The Kings of the Earth bewail and stand afar off for fear of her Torment her Merchants throw Dust on their Heads and cry out in their Lamentings Alas Alas and at last her Irrecoverable Ruin is set out by a Millstone cast into the bottom of the Sea by a mighty Angel pronouncing So shall Babylon be thrown down and found no more at all ver 15. 19. 21. If this Judgment then be Prophetically denounced by the Holy the True the Mighty God It must and shall certainly come to pass in the Time and upon the City designed This is a Principle of Natural Light and Intellectual Reason so clear I shall no further insist upon it What then can be levied by way of Objection I can possibly suppose but two Things Either the Authority of the Book of the Revelation must be called into question as not from God or it must be said
and Its Roman City or False Church hath raised against those who have embraced Christianity and desire to enjoy it in the Purity and Simplicity of it or have not submitted to that Tyranny they have so grasp'd at as hath been described And we see the Princes and Powers of this World that have been the Devotionists of it have contributed their Force thereunto The secular Authority as they call it and which Prophecy calls The Ten Kings making War with the Lamb. And all this together hath come to that Extremity of Blood Slaughter and all manner of Torture as continue to this very Day History and Experience are so full of it I need say nothing The Waldenses or as we call them Vaudois are a lasting Monument hereof and continue so before our Eyes Now this Cruelty of Christians as they would be called upon their own so honourable Name is so monstrous that even Pagans cannot but be astonished at it and call into doubt that holy harmless and compassionate Religion so full of Mercy Peace all good Fruits when they find the Professors of it and the Papacy and Church of Rome who would be Supremes of it breathing out Slaughter and Blood to be as Lyons Tygers Wolves yea Devils let loose set on Fire of Hell upon those who profess the same Lord and Christ and such Princes as the French King to out-do the Neroes Domitians Decius's and Dioclesians and the Papal to equal yea to exceed the Pagan Rome herein And it should make us bewail that ever what hath been call'd Protestant should have any of these Stains upon it and abhor the least Thoughts of the Return of any such Thing in our own Nation Let us now take a View of the Portraicture of Prophecy and its Abundance when it gives us the Character of the little Horn of the King of Fierce Countenance of the lawless King that does after his own Will of the He to whom Time Times and Half are given of the Beast in the Revelation all which are one and the same Papacy of Rome as hath been already and may be now made out even to the very Nicety of Prophetic Explications and as to the Pseudo-Catholic Church of Rome Dan. 7. 21. I beheld and the same horn made war with the saints and prevailed against them Ver. 25. He speaks great words against the most High and shall wear out the saints of the most High Chap. 8. 24. His power shall be mighty but not by his own power and he shall destroy wonderfully and practise and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people Ver. 25. By Peace as if he did nothing but in a Peaceable Way Any thing of Force lies wholly on the secular Arm He shall yet destroy many In the Revelation Chap. 11. 7. The Beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless Pit shall make War against the Witnesses of Christ shall overcome them and kill them Chap. 13. 7. It was given by Way of Permission but most judiciary License also to make war with the saints and to overcome Ver. 15. He causes by his Supremacy in an Image that all who would not worship the Image of the Beast should be killed Ver. 17. And that no man might buy nor sell have Freedom of Trade as it is now in France who would not receive the mark of the Beast c. And till his Term expire this must be when it expires it shall end There is therefore set up as a Pillar inscrib'd as a Boundary of Time Ver. 10. Here is the Faith and Patience of the Saints Thus far it reaches till the Time of Judgment on the Beast and his Horns Then He that leadeth into Captivity shall go into Captivity he that killeth with the Sword shall be killed with the Sword Chap. 17. 14. The Ten Kings Horns of the Beast make war with the Lamb and his Saints But the Beast is taken and the Kings slain with Chap. 19. the Sword of Christ And as for the City or Papal Church of Rome how abundant is Prophecy Chap. 17. 6. I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints and of the martyrs of Jesus Chap. 18. 6. Reward her as she rewarded you Ver. 20. Rejoice over her Tbou Heaven and ye Holy Prophets and Apostles for God hath avenged you on her Ver. 24. In her was found the blood of the Prophets and Apostles and of the Martyrs all that were slain on the Earth Chap. 19. 2. God hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand And Chap. 11. 8. The bodies of the witnesses lay dead in the street of the great City which by Compare must be Babylon the Great the great City spiritually called Sodom for its corrupting the Earth with her Fornication and Egypt for her Cruelty and Tyranny and with that as distinct a Remark as could be set Spiritually All knowing their Antichristian Usurpation on that Word The Spirituality for the sake of which I could rejoice if that very Word in Use in our Nation Lords Spiritual were utterly blotted out Chap. 16. 3. The Angel that poured out his Vial on the Waters and Rivers of Babylon its Papacy and Kings said by way of Praise Thou art righteous Oh Lord which art wast and art to come because thou hast thus judged for they have shed the blood of thy Saints and Prophets and thou hast given them blood to drink for they are worthy And anâ—ther Angel from the Altar where the souls ef Martyrs cry out How long Lord Answers Even so Lord God Almighty True and â—ighteous are thy Judgments Seeing then these Things of the Persecutions of the Romish City in its whole 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Breadth its Papacy and ten Kings are as clear as the Day and that Prophecy is so direct upon them if this very Character were alone it were even sufficient to assure it is Papal Rome under the Eye of Prophecy much more in this sevenfold Concenterment Charact. 7. The Papacy is the last Supream of the Roman Empire and that Supremacy the very last State and Time of this City Rome Now of this indeed we first say nothing beyond those Scriptural Reasons That the final and most destructive Judgments of God are to be expected on a City of so great Idolatries Filthinesses Pride Cruelty and the bloody Persecutions of the Servants of God and of so long Continuances therein as not only other Cities who when they have fill'd up their Measures of Iniquity have been judged by God but Jerusalem which God made so great an Exemplar of Judgment we may also observe in the Course of Providence and the Government of the World All humane States and Governments have come to their Periods and Rome having had so long a Duration from the Vrbs Condita or first Building of Rome and even since it became Rome Papal a Time as we may according to the most usual Allowances of Time to Cities and States the Sovereign Lord of Time hath determin'd
the Judgment hath been already Executed Object 1. As to the first I shall say these three Things Answ 1. That this Book hath such a Majesty of Truth in the most awfull Representations of the Divine Being of the Redemption of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Beauty of Holiness and of the Abominableness and dreadful end of Sin That whoever hath any Fear of God arising from the light of Natural Conscience or any Gust of the Excellency of Sacred Writings cannot but acknowledge it from God Add hereunto those bright Rays that shining from it every where enlighten the Purity of Divine Worship in detestation of all Idolatry and Superstition and Illustrate the Glory of Martyrdom for keeping the Commandments of God and for holding the Testimony of Jesus In all The Glory of it is as of the Revelation of Jesus Christ given to him by God and who then will dare to set himself as a mark for that Commination If any Man take from the Words of the Prophecy of this Book God will take away his Part from all the great Promises of it and will add to him the Plagues written in it which both are most dreadful C. 22. 18 19. Answ 2. Let any one consider the Curious and Admirable Iconisms Images and Figures found in this Book and if he haue a Mind that hath Vnderstanding to apply them to the Events foretold from their first beginning shortly that is to begin from the time of giving it immediately to come to pass and reaching down to this very time he will find them so exactly to answer the prophetical and predictory Types as to justifie this Book of the Revelation to be from God by that very demonstration of Divinity God appeals to Esay 41 23. Shew us things to come that we may know ye are Gods Hence therefore we may be assur'd of the Divinity of this Prophecy even from the prescience of God in it Answ 3. The Prophecies of the Old Testament in Isa C. 47. and Jerem. 51. and in Daniel throughout are such an Exemplar of Judgment on whatever shall come under the Name of Babylon the great as Nebuchadnezzar memorializ'd it for after Ages that if we are duly perswaded of the Divine Authority of the one we have all the just Inducements of the same perswasion of this Apochaliptic Prophecy and that the Spirit who breathed the one breathed the other also who foresaw Mystical Babylon in litteral and prepar'd the Shades of the Destruction of it the Latter in the Former which highly aggrandizes the Evidence of the Divine Authority of the Revelation For none but the Divine Understanding could ever have excogitated such an Admirable Agreement Object 2. As to the second Objection That the Judgment hath been already Executed and the Prophecy fulfilled it shall be answer'd under the second Position that the City which is here denounced upon is Papal Rome from whence it will necessarily follow It is not nor can can yet have been Executed because the City Rome is yet in Being and Greatness but by this Judgment is utterly to be destroyed But in the mean time it may be envinc'd from the glorious Consequences drawn out C. 19. C. 20. C. 21. C. 22. which are so close connexed with this Judgment which have not yet come into effect that therefore not the Judgment itself for who can apprehend such Glorious Appearances as the Heavens opening Christ's coming forth Attended with the Armies of Heaven such an Universal Conquest of Enemies and such a New Jerusalem and Illustrious state of it have ever enlightned a World continuing yet so dark He that can perswade himself to believe that may believe any thing most unreasonable I come therefore to the second Position Posit 2. There are Infallible Characters fixed by this Prophecy by which we may be most assur'd It is the present Papal Rome to be Judg'd For the making out this Position Two things are to be prov'd 1. That Rome it self is the City intended 2. That though Rome Pagan be intended yet Rome Papal is the Babylon on which the Judgment is to be Executed so fully here describ'd That it is Rome There are two undeniable even Litteral Affirmations that even the Popish Expositors who have so great Reason to ward off the Blow from Rome yet they have not the face to deny the City must needs be Rome and therefore some of them fix on Pagan Rome But Rome take it Pagan take it Papal Rome it self is the City to be thus Judg'd as the Divine Spirit hath made known to us by saying the Seven Hâ—ads are Seven Mountains on which the Woman sitteth Now the Seven Headed City was as plain a Character of Rome when the Apocalyptick Apostle writ as if we described London by the City whose Shore the Thames washes or Constantinople by the Bosphorus coming up to it Again the same Divine Spirit hath told us the City is she that hath the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Kingdom at this very present time over the Kings of the Earth which is as plain a Distinction of Rome as at the time of the Revelation given as if we describ'd London by the City where the Courts of the King of Judicature and the Councils of the Nation are and the chief Seat of Trade is or Constantinople by the Ottoman Port Who that knows the History of the World at that time knows not That Rome was the Seate of the Empire of the World at that very Time This being so plain though other Proofs may be given I pass off from it and come to the second part of the Position That though Pagan Rome is to be taken in yet Papal Rome is the City to be Judg'd especially Ultimately Finally That this may be made out I must lay in the Foundation That as the City Rome is Evidently shewn to be the Babylon to be Judg'd So the Supremacy meant here by the Beast must be a Supremacy closely Related to the City Rome and Bearing up that City in Glory and Grandeur as Pope of Rome in the place of Emperor of Rome or any other of the Supreme Magistracys of it For the City and the Beast that Carryes it are Inseparable If it be therefore made out that the Supremacy is Papal on which the City is Born up when it is Judged It will most certainly follow that the City to be Judg'd is Rome Papal Even as if it be prov'd that the Rome to be Judg'd is Rome Papal It is therein prov'd that the Supremacy Judg'd is Papal Supremacy For as is said They are Inseparable and Proportion'd one to another I will therefore draw out several Characters of Papal Supremacy and of Papal Rome that are most Plain Matters of Fact upon both in Relation to and Compare one with another and that are given in Prophecy upon each as the most plain and easy to be understood waving what is more Critical and Curious and yet most Argumentative and most Conclusive as laid one to
another consider'd together that Papal Rome with its Papacy are here Represented to be Judged The Characters are these Following Charact. 1. It is undeniable The Papacy lays claim to a Supremacy as the Vicar of Christ Vniversal Bishop Pope of Rome as Universal as Emperor of Rome heretofore over the Princes of Europe and a Pastor above Princes and the Supreme Powers here upon Earth So the Church of Rome Vniversal Catholic Church The Mistress of Churches or Lady as Babylon of Old or as Rome when Mistress Lady of the World All this is undenyable Matter of Fact in general knowledg of the World at this day and much more so before the Reformation And what more plain in Prophecy In Daniel in this Prophecy of the Revelation Beast is Interpreted into King or Kingdom as a Succession of Kings Having Times and Laws given into his Hand to Change Horns are Kings and so must the Little Horn be and as more Dan. c. 7. Stout then his Fellows an Imperial King In this Vision of the Revelation the Beast is the Eighth King and of the Seven Heads Supremes over Rome To shew his Imperialness Ten Kings are as Horns upon his Head in Subordination to him Power was given to him over all Kindreds and Tongues and Nations An Vniversal Monarch C. 13. 7. â— 17. 9. As for the City it is Babylon The Great the Great City who saith I sit a Queen As she had sate upon Formor Kings so she is Carried on high by the Beast The Kings of the Earth Live Deliciously with her her Merchants are the Great Men the Grandees of the Earth made Rich by her Costlyness And the Greatness and Variety of her Merchandise speaks her Greatness Now seeing it hath been Proved by the Letter of the Prophecy Rome is the Seven Headed City that was Imperial at the Time of the Prophecy given I appeal to all Persons who know the State of Things now in Europe and what it was in Ancient Time whether there be in the Roman Empire that then was any Supreme like the now Pope for Universality For not only the Kings excepting those who Renounced him in the Reformation but even he is who called Emperor is no Emperor in Compariâ—â—â— of the Papal Supreme whom he himself owns and payes Subjection to or any City that can pretend to be a Queen as Rome pretends to be as it calls it self the Catholick Church There can be no pretence of the Otoman Supreme or of Constantinople like it Though that be so fixed as it is as a Spightful Rival of it by the hand of Vengeance as might be further shewn if Seasonable now And therefore this Character I look upon even Demonstratively Distinctive of Papal Rome and the Papal Supremacy But if this can be thought not sufficient what follows will more assure it Charact. 2. The Papal Supremacy However Prevalent it hath been and is is yet in the Ballance of Worldly Powers a weak Precarious Impuissant Supremacy and hath no Martial Strength to support or Defend it self by as is well known in all History and Daily Experience So that Great Statesmen Puffendors Introduction to the Histor of Europ Cap 12. and Politicians have been much Amused How so Unarm'd a Supremacy should have so long continued it self We in this Nation are Witnesses how Uncontroulably the King of this Nation Henry the 8th at his own Pleasure Revuls'd himself and it from him and Queen Elizabeth after the Resumbmision of Queen Mary Abdicated the Papacy anew as other Princes about the same Time did In the same manner let us Judg of the City Rome now and we know it is not the Residence of the Ancient Martial Spirit and Prowess that Inhabited it But as its Supreme is Unarm'd so is the City upheld by the Kindness of the Ten Kings that shall Hate and Famish and Burn it hereafter and by the Fraud and Cunning of the Pope the Cardinals and other the Preisthood of it an Imperial City in a Mystery that is a False Catholick Church held up by Art Let us observe now How Prophecy speaks of this Character both as to the City and as to its Supreme and we shall find in Daniel The Feet and Toes of the Image Dan. 2. Which make the last State of the Fourth Roman Monarchy or Kingdom were Part of Iron and Part of Clay Partly Strong as Iron and Part Broken Fragile v. 42. Weak and Frail as Clay And what could the whole Ingeny of Man have found out more Curiously and yet Significantly to Express the Feeble Supremacy of the Papacy Like Feet of Clay upheld by the Iron of the Ten Kings and in the other Vision the Ten Horns Surround and Cover the Little Horn that else could not defend it self his Power shall be Mighty but not in his own Power C. 8. 24. In the Revelation the Beasts Supremacy is continually Represented with an Image Conioyn'd with a Spiritual Power an Ecclesiastical Supremacy which is a Supremacy in an Image And it is by Gift under a Divine Decree The Ten Kings Agree and with One Consent give their Kingdom and Power and Strength to the Beast It is by Gift and by Agreement and as by Ballance on One Another's Power as Event hath prov'd Let us now behold the Character drawn by Prophecy in relation to the City She sits indeed a Queen But it is by the Sorcery of a False Religion upon Princes and People by making them drunk with the Wine of her Fornication and Adulteries an Impure Senseless sort of Devotion and the False Hopes of Salvation by it a Drunken Dream fit to Enchant and Enslave those who are bereaved of All Judicious Understanding in Christianity and pleas'd with a Faith Worship of God and Conversation suited only to a Carnal Sensuality All this shews us wherein the Strength of this City or False Church lies And how Exactly do these Things Answer One Another What we Every Day see with our Eyes and hear with our Ears and have all manner of Assurance of in Papal Rome and these Delineations of Prophecy carrying us out of all manner of Doubt that the City here described to be Judg'd is Papal Rome Char. 3. In the Papacy of Rome and its City or False Church we find the Collection of All the Superstitions and Idolatries that ever have been almost if not altogether in the World under One Pretence Colour and Coverture or other Running like Filthy Drains into this Foul Great Sewer enough to fill Volumes with their incredible Multitude and Variety Such as if duly consider'd cannot but be thought most Strange and Horrid in so Divine Spiritual and so Intellectual a Worship of God as Christianity teaches And how hath Prophecy Represented this In Daniel by the Infamous Name of Beast common to Him with other Idolatrous Pagan Supremes So by His thinking to change Times and Laws given into his Hand for such a Term plainly signifying Sovereign Power Engaging it self in the Devising
and Introducing False Religion as Jeroboam of old 1 Kings c. 12. 32. 38. In the Revelation He is Full of the Names of Blasphemy that is of Idolatry For so the Idolatry of such as make a Profession of the True God is styled Isa 65. 7. by the Judgment of the most Learned Interpreters And indeed it can be no other For to acknowledge a Beeing so Holy Wise Jehovah the Eternal Infinite Spirit and then to put upon him the Folly and Nothing as the Apostle styles it of an Idol is perfect Blasphemy And so it is to arrogate to be worshipp'd with him And it is most observable the Revelation frequently Joyns this Beast Worshipp'd and his Image Worshipp'd plainly importing his Idolatrousness Aholah and Aholibah those Idolatrous Churches of Israel and Judah are a most Graphical Description of this City or False Church in the same Kind of Style Aholah and Aholibah were set out Ezek. c. 23. in all the Lewdness of Infamous Women Those False Churches of Israel and Judah if it be Lawful at all to use the Name of Churches in their Case and particularly Judah have the Title of an Imperious or as it may be render'd exactly to the present Case Imperial Whorish Woman Ezek. 16. 33. So Rome is Pictur'd having in her Hand a Golden Cup full of the Wine of her Fornication Charact. 4. That which is so Generally to be observ'd in the Papacy is the very Height of a most Bold Blasphemous Arrogancy The very Supremacy he usurps in the Christian Church shews his Luciferian Pride The Title HIS HOLINESS is most Sacrilegious Seeing God Only Holy is much more Alone Holiness it self His Claim of Infallibility above Councels is a small Thing for he exalts it above Scripture it self That in the Sense of the very Pharisees Blasphemous taking upon him to Pardon Sin his Indulgences Pretended Deliverances from Purgatory his Counterseit Miracles his Anathematising and Cursing down All to Hell who detest his Idolatries shews him that Proud and Haughty Scorner who Deals in Proud Wrath His setting his Throne and Lifting his Scepter above the Thrones and Scepters of Princes is most Horrid and Intolerable Insolency In All this the City is one with him sitting alought upon him and Born upon him in all this Babylonish Lucifertanism Esay 14. 12. Let us observe how Scripture-Predictions shew this his Sathanic Presumption Daniel calls it his speaking Words High Great Words against the Most High c. 7. 25. Standing up against the Prince of Princes c. 8. 25. Speaking marvellous things against the God of Gods and He shall magnify Himself above every God or Supreme c. 11. 36. He sitteth in the Temple of God as God shewing himself he is God He exalts himself above All that is called God the Scripture Expression for Princes or that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is styled August taken from the Name of Augustus the Greatest of Rome's Emperors and become at that Time the Imperial Title Thus the Apostle describes the Beast calling him the Man of Sin in the Antichristian Apostacy he was describing and that we may know him to be the Beast he is call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That Lawless Prince that does what he will Dan. 11. 36. and the Son of Perdition as Revel 17. In the Prophecy of the Revelation he is thus set out To him was given a Mouth speaking Great Things He opened his Mouth in Blasphemies against God to blaspheme his Name The World wonder'd after him They who dwell upon the Earth shall worship him whose Names are not written in the Lamb's Book of Life He comes as Sathan with All Deceivableness of Vurighteousness in them who perish on whom God sends strong Delusion to believe so great a Lie as the Papacy in its whole Frame makes up Compare herein 2 Thes 2. 10 c. Rev. 13. 3. 8 c. The City that Sodom and Great Whore tbat corrupteth the Earth with her Fornications Rev. 11. c. 17. That Woman Jezebel which calleth her self a Prophetess which Teacheth and Seduceth the People of Christ Christians by Profession to commit Fornication to have Communion with Idols Rev. 2. 20. She hath on her Forehead a Name written Mystery as if she were indeed the Church of the Living God the Pillar and Foundation of Truth the Catholick Church out of which none can be saved But it is the Mystery of Iniquity For the Inscription goes on Mother of Harlots So that a most Unintelligible Composition of Wickedness makes up this Mystery I Appeal now to All whether such Insolencies of Arrogation ate to be found in the whole World as in the Papacy and its Church of Rome or whether such Known Matter of Fact in All these Things could be more plainly set out than they are by these Prophecies Charact. 5. The Great Fraud Dissimulation Worldly Policy and Intrigue we know in the Papacy and the Pseudo Catholick Roman Church all its Cheats and Impostures make up such a Character of it that we find that Great Swedish Statesman Puffendor spends the whole Chapter forementioned in the Discourse of it who the he does not appear to have the least Relation to Prophecy yet writes so according to it on that Subject That it is very wonderful even as if he had aim'd to Justify Prophecy by so notorious matter of Fact Let us then Review Prophecy on this Head first in Daniel The Little Horn had the Eyes of a Man a Look or Aspect more Great Rabbi-Like of more Perspicacity than his Fellow Horns He had Eyes and a Mouth that spoke Great Things the Mouth as of a Man of Eyes Dan. 7. 20. He understood Dark Sentences Through his Policy He causes Craft to prosper in his Hand c. 8. 25. In the Revelation c. 2. 14. In the Church of Pergamus the Prophetic Symbol of the Church of Christ Under the Antichristian Throne of Sathan the Papal Supremacy we read of that Politician Prophet Balam who taught Balac to cast a Stumbling-block before the Children of Israel by drawing them into Idolatrous Practices In the Church of Thyatyra the Symbol of the Protestant Churches under Popish Persecuting Princes stirred up by the Papal Antichristian Church as it will be call'd which is Represented by Ahabs Queen Jezebel then which none more apt in the whole History of Scripture could be found as might by a Compare be made apparent But her Whoredoms and Witchcrafts cannot be passed by with which Jehu upbraided her so reproachfully as the Protestant Princes have done Rome Oh that so many of them had not fallen into Jehu's great Evil not to have made a perfect Reformation But That which is most to the present Purpose is That she had together with her assumed Propheticness the Depths of Sathan as the Arcana Regni her deep Maxims of Sathanic State by both which she enchants be witches intoxicates Princes and Nations Charact. 6. There is nothing more notorious than the dreadful Persecutions and Storms of Violence the Papacy
loss of Children All Scripture speaks of Sudden Destruction when Men cry Peace Peace It is a Time when Men are High and Proud and Haughty that their Fall is near Nebuchadnezzar was laid hold on by Vengeance with those words in his Mouth Is not this Great Babylon from whence it had its Name in this Prophecy of the Revelation Dan. 4. C. 11. Babylon the great The Great City said he which I have built for the Honour of the Kingdom by the Might of my Power and for the Honour of my Majesty And while the word was in the Kings Mouth the Judgment came upon him So while Belshazzar was in his Highest Jolity Drinking Wine in Vessels of the Temple and Praising his Idols of Silver and of Gold The Hand writing appear'd and that Night he was slayn Now it is certainly such a Time to Romish Babylon at this very day The Jubilee especially the Centurial is a Time when she sits a Queen is espoused by the Princes and is no Widdow when her Children gather about her the King of Poland so lately turn'd to her and she thinks she can know no Loss of Children when she sits as on a Throne Dispensing Pardons and Indulgences And a time it is when so Nebuchadnezzar-like a Prince is so Insolently Vaunting and so outragiously Persecuting and Protestant Princes stand by and are so Tender of the Articles of their late Peace as not to be at Liberty to offer their Intercessions to the contrary Thus far I have setled the Great Positions concerning the Judgment upon Babylon To which I shall add to Corroborate what I have already laid down and to make way to the Remaining Part of the Discourse these following Observations Observ 1. That together with the Judgment on Babylon not when it begins I would not be so mistaken but when it comes to it's Perfection and filling up There will be a concurrent Judgment upon the whole World of Wicked Men the World of the ungodly the Time of the Dead will then be come that they should be Judged The Judgments of C. 11. C. 15. God will be made Manifest in all the Earth Small and Great Bond and Free are slain with the Sword C. 19. 20 c. that proceedeth out of the Mouth of Christ the word by which he Judgeth at the last Day In the Burnings of Babylon the Cities of the Nations fall The Fire begins there and fpreads all over the Earth Then will be the great Earthquake and Hail Cap. 16. Vlt. All these Expressions and many other are made concurrent with Great Babylon coming up in Remembrance before God to give her the Cup of his Fury Now this ought to make greatly Remarquable to us the Judgment upon Babylon Observ 2. The Judgment of God upon Babylon is Celebrated with his Highest Adorations and Praises of his Servants Shewing at once the Highest Glory of God and the Happiness of his People in it There were Loud Voices in Heaven of Praise and the Four and Twenty Elders fell down on their Faces saying We Praise thee Oh Lord who Art who was who Art to come because then hast taken to thee thy Great Power and hast Reigned Which is at Babylons being Judged For then is the Allelujah of the Lord C. 11. God Omnipotent Reigning Psal 149. Then is the Time C 19. of the High Praises of God in the Mouths of his of their Rejoycing in Glory Then do they sing the Song of Moses the Servant of God and of the Lamb as we find it at large Then shall be the Four Courses of Alleâ—ujahs C. 15. 3. and all arising from Babylon being Judg'd that we have C. 19. 3. c. And then is the Glory of the New Jerusalem State coming down as a Bride Adorned for the Bridegroom Now then as the Eternal Judgment and the Allelujahs of Eternal Glory and Happiness are two so great points of Scripture Truth So by these Scriptures the Judgment of Babylon is declared a Great and a high point of Scripture Truth Because with Cap. 21. it are Complicated and Conserved the Truths of the Gospel that have such a Principality and Supremacy in it and they are so Interwoven with it that the one cannot be Separated from the other and the Judgment of Babylon ought therefore to be most closely attended to and not looked upon as a dark Prophetical Truth with which we have little to do Let us then Humbly set our selves as Daniel of old to search the Time in the Books of Prophecy when this Babylon as that of old is to be Judg'd and the whole Consederacy of the Enemies of the Kingdom and Servants of Christ yea all both small and great Wicked And then the Glory of Christ and his Reign shall appear And let us hast on to it with Earnestness of Prayer Desire and Expectation of it Observ 3. It is most undeniable The Prophecies of Scripture have continually given Numbers of Time as when Laws and Times are given into the Hand of the Little Horn there is a Limitation of Time and Times and Half when the Vision of the daily Sacrifice was given for the taking it away and the C. 7. Treading it under Foot There is a Time assign'd from the very First Date of the Vision to the Time of C. 8. Justifying the Sanctuary even 23000. Eves Morns When the Question was unto how long the End of the Wonders There is a Threefold Account of c. 12. Time Time Times Half a Time 1290. Dayes and 1335 Days In the Revel C. 11. On the Gentiles coming into the Outer Court There are Forty Two Moons Dererminate and to the Counter Prophecy of the Witnesses 1260 Days Three Days and a Half of the Witnesses lying Dead in the Street of the Great City 1260 Days of the Church in the Wilderness and Concurrent Three Times and a Half Forty two Moons of the Beasts continuated Supremacy And the Number of the Beast 666 with a General Rule and a Solemn Elogium of the Wisdom of Counting Here is Wisdom Let him that hath it Calculate as the word properly signifies And I say it is a General Rule There is the Same or a Parity of Reason to Count throughout And there are the same difficulties to be overcome For who indeed can once suppose the Blessed Spirit of Wisdom the Spirit of Truth Leading into all Truth the Spirit shewing Things to come would have given in the Scriptures of Truth which we are Commanded to Search and in the sure word of the Prophecy to which we are Commanded to give Heed as to a Light that Shineth in a Dark Place would have given these Numbers of Time if he had not intended they should be understood and guided our Hopes and Prayers to the Time of his Kingdom Observ 4. The Time of Babylon or Rome Judged is the Time of the Papacy going into Perdition The Time of the Papacy going into Perdition is the Time of Rome
Nations in that great Interest of the People of God the Freedom and Peace of the Reformation in France Piedmont Savoy the Palatinate and other Parts and He Himself the Principal Persecutor under the miserable Bigotry of Thinking He Does God Good Service in Persecuting as the Tenor of his Letter Imports wherein he Appears Drunk with the Wine of Babylonish Fornication Secondly Another Instance of Divine Abruption and so of Insraction in the same Year was that Monumental Victory over the Mahometan Army and the Ottoman Sultan in Person with it Now seeing That Tyranny more immediately presses the Grecian Professors of Christianity and Hath laid them under so great Slavery and Darkness This Eastern Part of the Christian Church Falling into a like Superstitious Ignorance Any True Servants of God among them were carried as with the other of the Two Wings into a Wilderness-State and fell into Re. 12. 14. great Darkness from the Light and Purity of the Gospel and so into Slavery under Mahometan Imposture and Tyranny and thus have continued to this Day And in how Lethargic or rather a State of Death All those whom we call the Greek Churches or Grecian Christians do at this Time lie None that know them can be Ignorant There being only Remainders and the Ruins of those Ancient Churches even as of their Cities The Prophesies and Promises of Scripture Reach yet unto them and at that very Year 97. Accordingly therefore about the same Autumnal Equinox of it It pleased Infinite Wisdom and Goodness to Arm with a Mighty Power and Spirit the Imperial Army and the Leaders of it and to give them a very Monumental Victory even a Victory like as in the Day of Midâ—aâ— or upon any other of the Ancient Enemies of the People of Israel to their Greatest Consternation and the Breaking all their Measures and Designs Hereto Add what God was pleas'd not far from the same Time to do by the Czar of Moscovy a Prince of the very Grecian Profession of Christianity These Victoriousnesses had undoubtedly been carryed to the very Gates of Constantinople Had there been but that Spirit of Life from God upon them But all lying in that Dead State The Emperor in the very God of Popish Antichristianism and the Bond of that Evil The Russian Prince in all the Superstition and Blindness of that Profession There was then First Gods Infraction as to the Year 97 The Great and Complemental Effects shone not to expectation that Year as Light Day And therefore there was an Abruption a Breaking off that Series and Contexture God had began So all is laid still in a Peace between the Port and the Empire and a Truce betwixt the Ottoman and Moscovian Princes Which how God will Dispose of we are yet to observe in the following Course of Providence Disposes of God with Relation to the Ottoman Signiory are the more to be observed on these Great Prophetic Considerations 1. It pleased the Divine Spirit to place the very opening of the Kingdom of Christ and Finishing of Wonders on that Mahometane Potentacy coming to its End and none to help it Dan. 11. Last with C. 12. 1. c. 2. That the Grecian Churches as we Style them Are the sad Remains of those Seven Apoclyptic Churhches made the Types and Emblems of all Christian Churches till the Glory of the New Jerusalem And therefore from the Time of that given However under such a Rejection Now Yet are Beloved for the Fathers sakes I mean Those Primitive Churches 3. The Hour the Day the Month the Year allowed to the Turkish Empire to stand Arm'd and in Procinctu Reaches Rev. 9. Just to 97 as hath been by other Apocalyptic Interpreters as by my self Less than the Least made out 4. From the passing away of the Second or Turkish Woe That great and Blessed Sound Commences The C. 11. Kingdoms of this World are Become the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ But as Mahometism came first as a Rev. 11. Judgment on the Latine as it is to be Distinctly call'd or Western Antichristianism So it is to be Preferr'd in the Expectation of Judgment First upon it self That so Tyrannous a Pseudo-Prophâ—tism that came upon it may not be Removed before the Provocatiâ—n of the Sin Oh how much Reason have we then to cry to Heaven for that Spirit of Life upon us all I hope I much more Desâ—re it upon my self then the Honour of being a True Prophet concerning it If one could be Separated from the other Although I am afraid to defer any thing to Phantastry I cannot yet but Just Mention That That so unaccountable even Phrenetic Superstition of the Turkish Procession was order'd on the First New Moon in the Month called Decemb. 97. and fell out on its Third Day That Procession was a Publick Declaration Their Affairs were come to Extremity Their Deprecation of the Displeasure of Heaven so Vehemently spoke an Apprehension of the Tottering and Ruine of their Port and Empire Thus Providence Discover'd what was in the Womb of Prophecy if there had not been an Abruption And that Abruption shew'd it self in that So great a Victory was not made an Advance to further Victoriousness and even Ruine of that Empire And indeed I cannot but make a Paralell of it with Esay 16. 21. Moabs wearying himself on his High Place and then coming to his Sanctuary to pray And the word of the Lord since and from that Time is That within Three Years as exactly Numbred as the Days of an Hireling and the Glory of the Ottoman Power shall be Contemned And all that great Multitude and the Remnant shall be very Small and feeble Now these Three Years are to be Accounted to End in the Month December in the Year 1700. Objec But may there not be on continuing Provocation and Unpreparedness for Mercy a further Infraction and Abruption even at the Year 1700. Answ By That Scituation of the Three Years and a Half between the 1260 and the Seventh Trumpet and the so closely Conterminating on each and Prophecy so express and positive therein That it should be Subjected to any such Ballance of Prophecy is utterly Impossible For though when there is an Equilibration of Prophecy there Providence does as it sees fit although all way in it self Determin'd Yet where Prophecy is Peremptory and Absolute Providence alway Acts according to it And so it is here that there can be no Fear of an Infraction or an Abruption Having thus discours'd the delay according to the Scripture words Gods Infraction and Abruption For he is pleas'd so to Style it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 My Breach The True and Faithful God takes such a Prerogative to speak his Intentions of Grace at such a Time under the Reservation of a Condition That there should be a Suitable Agreeable Frame in his People to his Promises Or else a further Time Reserved But as I have made out there is also a