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A most humble representation in a further review, erecting a pillar of praise in acknowledgement of what God hath been pleased to do in this last remarkable year with reasons from thence of expectation of a happy revolution in the rising of the suffering witnesses of Christ, or Protestants in France, &c., the fall of the Papal and Ottoman state, and the beginning of the Kingdom of Christ in the world ...
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Beverley, Thomas.
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1698
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A most Humble REPRESENTATION In a Further Review ERECTING A Pillar of Praise In acknowledgement of what GOD hath been pleased to Do in this Last Remarkable Year WITH Reasons from thence of Expectation of a Happy Revolution in the Rising of the Suffering Witnesses of Christ or Protestants in France c. The Fall of the Papal and Ottoman State and the Beginning of the Kingdom of Christ in the World speedily to be brought to pass by the Stone cut out of the Mountains not in Human hands but to become Himself a Great Mountain filling the whole Earth I Am most sensible The great Events I hoped this last Year have not had their Complement and that therefore The Censures of many are very severe upon me according to the great Rigor of Human Nature upon it self in this Degeneracy of it But upon the Review of the whole Year and the Events of it which must needs be acknowledged to be very Extraordinay Ones and the particular Times in which the Divine Providence did advance them I find great Reason of Encouragement For it pleased the great LORD of Time through Grace in Jesus Christ the Mediator of His Churches Times the Great Palmoni or Wonderful Numberer of Time the Supreme Apocalyptes to whom God gave that Illustrâ—oâ—s Prophecy of the New Testament The Revelation to direct me in a Paper published in the Fifth Month called July to the most particular â—â—â—â—â—se Times of the greatest of Events this Last Year in both Old and New-Stile The times I fix'd upon were the Month of August from the 15th to the end of the Month the 1st of September the Ancient Feast of Trumpets the 10th of September the Day of Jubilee the Feast of Tabernacles from the 15th to the 22th of the same Month. Accordingly on the 22th of August Old-Stile just on the Time of the Cessation of the Empire of Rome in the West as was more fully set out in that Paper and in New-Stile September the 1st the Feast of Trumpets The French King comes forth taking upon himself as a Caesar-Augustus or Vniversal Monarch to shut the Temple of Janus in an Vniversal Peace or as he spoke Giving Repose to Europe On the same 22th of August Old-Style and September the 1st New-Style the Imperial Armies were in motion towards the Turkish Forces and on the 31th Old-Style That so extraordinary and monumental Victory was obtained over the Grand Signior and his Bashaws On the 10th of September Old-Style the 20. of September New-Style the Articles of Peace were Sign'd at Riswick These Things came to pass at the very times of this Year that had been Foretold as â—ath been said in that Paper which as it may be subject to Censure because Things have not risen to that hâ—iâ—â—hâ— yet ought to be considered and justify'd in what the Year hath attained in such Determinate Times for Events That though not to the highest themselves yet â—ontain within themselves the Seeds Beginnings and Principle or these Highest and are the Pledges Earnestâ— and Assurances of them As the Peace which the French King takes upon himself to have given imports however he understand it not the Resignation of Vniversal Monarch and the Vniversal Peace of the â—â—rce of Peace The Maboâ—etan Ottoman Defâ—â—t assâ—â—es the passing awâ—y of the sâ—â—ond â—â—o viz. Of the Ottoman lyranny and That â—â—inâ—â— coming to an end and none to help him His Day Hour Month Year being expired and the Kingdom of Christ immediately ready to succeed and therefore the Papacy on which it is a Judgment certainly to â—ad with it And though I do not pretend to have affixt the following Events to their proper Points and Times They are yet great Events of this Year that ought to be Recorded as so The Articles of Peace with the Empire after a time of Suspension holding the Peace at some incertainly were accepted by the Emperor â—â—lob 〈◊〉 and Signed Nâ—v the 1st New Style and Remarkably so as it Divine Providence would Note the Half â—â—â—e or an 〈◊〉 Years past since The Reformation by Luther more illustriously shew'd it self in the Empire who affix'd his Antipapisâ—â—ed Positions to the Church-doors at Winemberg the same â—â—bob 31. for the sâ—â—re of the Popish high All-sâ—irts Day following to be thereby made of the most Publick Noteriâ—ty in the Empire and it gives great Hopes some great Intentions of Providence for the Glory of His Gospel in the Reformation and 〈◊〉 his â—â—ngdom in the Empire are laid up in 〈◊〉 Peace This Year hath produced a very observable Appâ—â—â—ance of the â—â—zir of Musâ—ovia and in a Victoriousness over the Ottoman Sâ—gâ—iory as 〈◊〉 Bâ—â—â—inâ—nâ— of the Câ—â—â—iar as we â—tileâ—em 〈…〉 out of their Iâ—norance Barâ—â—â—â—â— Slaâ—â—ry â—â—â—ording to prephâ—â— of which 〈…〉 Prince iâ— a iâ—â—st Fruits and the mâ—â—re for his coâ—â—â—â—â— into so cleâ—r an Air of 〈…〉 in this Nation and wheneâ—â—r That doth come to pass I am Inâ—allibly certain the Great City Rome shall be ready to 〈…〉 But That which in the last place but with a Primary Intention I Record as a great Event of this Year 97. is That though It is much to be Lamented The Protestant Interest could not be comprehended in the Peace and that the Herodian Spirit hath appeared in a time of Universal Peace which slaughtered the Infants at one time and at another time streached forth its hand on the Christian Church to vex and to kill So a Persecutory Spirit hath even since the Peace raged in the French Monarch A great Remove from the Magnanimity of Christian or Princely Compassion that would overslow at such a time towards all Oh that there were a due sense of it among Protestants that are at ease and that solemn Fasting and Prayer without ceasing were made for such Sufferers For why should there be Wrath agairst Protestant Princes Churches and Nations Who would not bewail That Protestancy our greatest Priviledge Glory and Enjoyment should be punish'd on them as their only Crime But I cannot but hope that God hath been pleased to suffer it that it might be made Evident that the Suffering Protestant beyond the Seas who at this time Keep the Commandments of God and Hold the Faith of Jesus are those Witnesses of God in whom God is pleased at this time as in an Epitome or Summary to draw up the sufferings of all the Confessors and Martyrs under the Papacy and Antichristian Apostacy for so many Hundreds of Years before their Full and Compleat Riâ—â—ng and the opâ—ning of his Kingdom There is therefore a perfect Sciagraphy or plat-form of the Apocalyptick Vision cap. 11. in their present Case and State They lye at this time in a Large Bredth of the Great City the Roman Artichristian Church viz. The Empire In which the Reformation hâ—â—an and more especially in France wheâ—e so many Dreadâ—â—l Scenes of their Massacres and Persecutions have heretofore been preâ—enâ—ed and in Piâ—â—moâ—t and Sâ—rcoy where They have been as many Faithful
Historians witneâ—â— continued by an uninterrupted succession of so many Hundred Years as will make up the 1260. in the pure Profession of the Gospel and However Persecuted they have been preserved as Moses his bush burning 〈◊〉 not confirmed Now in this very Year They 〈◊〉 this Breadth lye dead but as was said especially in France under Aâ—athemaes Proscription Edicts for Dâ—atâ— and Banishment Able â—â—â—ion to the Gallies their Testimony to Christianity and their Sufferings as it were Vying one with another Tâ—ey of the Popish People and Kindreds and Tongues and Nations have by their Plenipotentiaries looked upon their Dead Bodies to the purpose and determined they should lye Dead and the Protestant Plenipoteniaries have beheld them dead and professed they could not help them They cannot yet be Buried in Regard of God's Gracious Bearing up of their Spirits with Renewed Resolution to keep up their Faith to Christ in the mid'st of so great Crueky upon them and further There are such great Kingdoms and States that standing upon their feet that is subsisting upon their own Strength Authority Laws and Government Avow the same Profession publickly in defiance of Papal Powers whatever and so are called Protestants or open Avowed Witnesses They that dwell upon the Earth The Popish Princes and States The Ecclesiastiâ—k Head which the Scripture calls The Beast as the Image of Ancient Empire have sent their Compliments of Congratulation and Joy and their Gifts and Presents one to another upon the suppressed State of Protestâ—ncy so far as they have attained and what Alliances they are forming further if the Stone cut out of the Moâ—ontains should not surprise them Time would Disâ—over And that they may think themselves more secure That they are still to continue Providence hath given them the returns into that Adulterous Bâ—soâ—t of one of the German Elâ—â—lors in the Couâ—t and Territories of whose Predecessors Protestancy had its first Protection that babylon may say I sit a Queen â—dâ—aâ—â— no Widow and shall see to sorrow and that so Her Plagues may come in one hour For therefore I Record these as signal Events of this Year because I look upon all these as signs at the Time God hath ordained when the spirit of Life fâ—oâ— God small enter unto the Witnesses their whole timâ— of 126â— Years of Saâ—kâ—loth Prophecy being expired and their present poâ—â—are such as Prophecy hath described it at their Riâ—ing and Deliverance But it is yâ—â— a most Remarkable Event of this Year That God hath been pleased this Year by the Peace to place it as an Honour upon the King as Prince of Orange to provide â—â—at His Principality as a Sanctuary that his Witnesses there may not only not be buried but not so much as lye Dead but their Profession 〈◊〉 born up there when in Regard of the Seveâ—â—ty of the Peâ—seâ—â—tion they lye Dead in other â—â—rts of that Nation And in Regard it is a â—â—â—toration of the Kingdoms of Protestancy 〈◊〉 â—he 〈…〉 before the Peace had eâ—â—â— of the Kingdom of France It bears the face of a Resurrection and the Return of their Four Fastors thither in so solemn a manner out of their Imprisonment at Lyons as is related in their Letter * Montâ— Accouâ—â— the Montâ— led Feâ—ary to the Pastor of the Walloon Congregation at Rotterdam I hope most Authentick carries the very Type of a Spirit of Life from God entring into them setting them on their Feet and A Voice from Heaven saying Come up hither Their Enemies beholding them and many Papists so moved as to give Glory to the God of Heaven by Conversion to Protestancy All which is both an Earnest and pledge and Assurance of the Resurrection of the Witnesses in general speedily to go on And one may even say They have begun to Rise and I cannot but hope hereby God hath made the King whom the Enemies have called in contempt Prince of Orange The Prince of Orange le Grand and on this very Account as on others A Signet in God's own Right Hand But it ought not to be omitted that God hath been pleased by a Spirit from himself now in the Close of the Year to set a further mark of Honour upon it the Unanimous Address of the Honourable House of Commons for the Honour of Jehovah in a Reformed Nation and accepted with such a Zealous Chearfulness by the King in so great a Proclamation This is I hope laid up as Scripture expresses it as a Memorial before the Lord in his Temple for the Glory of the King and Parliament in his approaching Kingdom It being a Testimony for God unparallel'd since what is stiled The Restoration and looks as if those earnest Motions for Reformation that have been at any time before since the Reformation from Popery were Reviving by joint Supreme Authority near to The Restitution of all things Now by way of Reflection upon all these Impâ—â—â—â—â— of Divine Providence upon this Year 〈◊〉 which being so many and all clear Matter of Fact cannot be supposed to be by chance I cannot but Remonstrate That tho' Thing are not Ascended to the Hâ—â—â—hâ—hs I had hoped and expected yet it â—â—â—not be denied God hath not left this Year â—â—stitute Naked or without Witness from Himself and that He hath in an Eminency Graced those very particular Times in this Year I had singled out as designed by Prophecy for Engravings upon with Effects of Divine Power and Goodnese Now whatever hath come to pass this Year of so great Remark and so agâ—â—â—able to Prophecy deserves some of that Astâ—riâ—k upon and Resurrection and of the Mission of the Holy Spirit Remarking it That Year and That same Year on occasion of that so Memorable Prophecy of Caiaphas their High-Priest that Year as Productive of it and Impelling it In like manner these things have come to pass this Great Prophetick Year 97. bâ—cause This same Year And as In a Wonderful Resemblance of Caiaphas and his Prophecy I cannot but look upon that Oracular Acknowledgment of the French King as what he was Impell'd to on the Account of his being permitted and so far upheld by Providence to take upon himself as an Vniversal Monarch in the Peace This same Year He Writing to the Arch-Bishop of Paris in desire of the Popish le Deum as a Thanksgiving for the Peace with the Emperor Thus begins COVSIN THE TIME WHICH HEAVEN HAD ORDAIN'D FOR THE RECONCILIATION OF THE NATIONS IS COME I hope This is Prophetical of the Reconciliation of all Nations by the Kingdoâ— of the Prince of Peace How therefore God will please to promote these Beginnings thro' this following Year 1698. Being very positive the 1260 Years of the Delay of the Kingdom of Christ there expired viz. Beginning at the Apocalyptick Epoch the time of our Lord's Resurrection Ascension and Mission of his Spirit Down to the time of the Cessation of the Roman Empire Month the 6th Then on the Feast of Trumpets Jubilee and Feast of Tabernacles in the 7th Month I will not Pronounce but Humbly Wait with greatest Hope and Expectation from Him who Magnisies his Word aâ—ove All his Name For I am humbly Conscious to my self whatever Thoughts Any may have I have not Rashly or Rudely seiz'd on the Time of the Last and of this Year as the Time of the Great Revolution I expect for the Kingdom of Christ but I have through the Grace of the Wonderful Numberer and through His Redemption extending it self to every Thâ—â—â— of His Kingdom that is the Kingdom of Redemption drawn a Line of Time according to the Scriptures made Illustrious with the greatest Events that have been known in the World coming down to this very Time from Soloâ—â—â—â—â— Death the very Time where Prophetical â—â—â—e begins and goes in a strait Line 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or expresly for the space of seven 390's or 2730. Years viz. the Changes made upon the Ancient People of God the Ten Tribes of 〈◊〉 and the Kingdom of Judah in their so 〈◊〉 Desolation the Babylonian Persian and Greâ—â—â— Monarchies the Roman Empire and the Greâ—â— Changes and Revolution of it which in regard of the coming of the Messiah His Deâ—â— Resurection and Ascension the Mission of the Spirit and the Preaching of the Gospel to the Gentiles falling within it is of all other the most Remarkable next to that of Israel Subject of Prophecy in the Old and New Testament and hath dependent upon it be Great Revolution of so great a part of the World coming under the Name of Jesus Christ But imediately attended with the Black and Dark Eclips of Antichristianism Styled very justly Romanism The time of which Prophecy is so Intent upon as to have given ten times the exact measure of and in all kinds of Characters On which Follow the Dreadful Judgments of God in Revenge of such a Traterous Undermine of his Kingdom In letting out the Barbarous Nations to Ravage upon Rome and to Break in peices 〈◊〉 Empire into Ten or a variety of Kingdoms Intoxicated into Papal Subjection Then came Mahometarism with it Two Wâ—eâ— the Saracens and the Turkish Ottoman Power which hath seated it self in the Room of the Grecian Empire and in it's very Atrâ—â—â—lis or at Constantinople All which is become a very great part of the History of the Lâ—ter Times And since that The Reformâ—â—â— by Luther which hath made so great a Change in the Papal State and the Kingdomes of Eâ—rope in General Now all these I have so Adjusted to their most Lively Types in Prophecy and to their most exact Scituation in what I look upon to be the Express Prophetic Line of Time or Prophetic Chronology And with such Attestation of General History and Chronology especially in some most Eminent Joynts of Time so undoubted as thereby to assure in what may seem more Dark and Doubtful and all to this day That I am sure The most Learned and Sagatious cannot draw such another Line so Justly sâ—â—â—ved and so supported But however or whenever These things shall appear I will not Fail Incessantly to Cry out with the Spirit and the Bride and to provoke him that heareth to say Come Lord Jesus Come quickly in thy Kingdom T. BEVERLY LONDON Printed for and Sold by William Marshall at the Bible in Neâ—gâ—te-street And by John Marshall at the Bible in Graâ—â—-Church-street 1608. 〈…〉 â—â—ease to do 〈…〉