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A27622 A review of what God hath been pleased to do this year, according to prophecy and particularly near the 23d of the month we stile August : in the general peace, and the Muscovian and imperial victories over the Turks : with a most humble apology and defence concerning the falling short of events, of what was expected according to the interpretation of that sure word of prophecy / by T. Beverley. Beverley, Thomas. 1698 (1698) Wing B2171; ESTC R37111 26,001 29

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A REVIEW OF What God hath been pleased to do This Year According to PROPHECY And particularly near the 23d of the Month we stile August IN THE General Peace and the Muscovian and Imperial Victories over the Turks WITH A most Humble Apology and Defence concerning the falling short of Events of what was expected according to the Interpretation of that sure Word of Prophecy By T. BEVERLEY Psal 111. 2. The Works of the Lord are great sought out of All who have pleasure therein LONDON Printed for William Marshal at the Bible in Newgate-street and John M●rshal at the Bible in Grace-Church-Street MDCXCVIII TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE Sir Humfry Edwyn LORD MAYOR Of the City of LONDON My Lord I Have observed The supreme Providence hath Placed you in the most Eminent Magistracys of this Great City in Two Extraordinary Years Engraven upon with Illustrious Appearances of his own Hand Your Sherivalry as I have been assured in the Year 88 The Year of the so Great Revolution in these Nations and your Lordships Mayoralty Enters in this Year of the Peace and the so Grand Victory of the Imperial Army over the Mahometan Turkish Signiory and both so close together and at a Time as I apprehend well known to Prophecy I have therefore thought it my Duty Humbly to present the following Review of both to your Lordship as in so High a Station This so Great Year And yet If God hath Graciously led me into the t●●e Interpretation of his Sure Word of Prophecy This is but small in Comparison of your Authority Extending it self into the much Greater Year 98 As I hope it will be found In which your Sword shall be born before the Prince of Princes the King of Kings and Lords of Lords the Prince of the Kings of the Earth I mean not in His Personal Appearance as many either Ignorantly or wilfully mistake but in Regard of the Glorious Manifestation of His Kingdom Entring its Succession which will not Lessen but Aggrandize both Royal and Magistratical Honour and Authority that Kisses the Son and does Homage to This Supreme and will not in the least give Countenance to Anarchy Confusion or Resistance to that Ordinance of God by either Le ellism or Rebellion but Conciliate the most Holy Humble and Pious subjection to Authority so Enstamp'd from Heaven as then it will be I have taken Notice by General Discourse Your Lordship in your Publick Attendance on the Worship of God appears to Desire the Reconciliation of Protestants whether under those undesirable and as too much mannaged unkind distinctions of Episcopacy Presbytery or Congregational Union I hope It is as Falling out this Year not without happy Presages of that Blessed Philadelphian Church-State speedily about to enter In which all such Names of difference will be lost in both the Purity and Love that will overflow them in the Succession of that Kingdom And as I have some Years ago Foretold That the Cathedral of Pauls as we stile it whose Loughty Pile which Providence seems to have allowed the Preparation of for the National Solemn Acknowledgments of God in the Peace wherein your Lordship will bear such a Figure shall yet I am perswaded speedily with those Names of Prelation and Prefidency in it that have their only Basis in that Antiquity wherein the Synagogue of Sathan began to have the Ascendency and not in pure Scripture-Antiquity Bow Themselves at the Feet of that Philadelphian State and Acknowledge Christ hath Loved and Chosen it or else both the Prelacy and the Cathedrals will suffer Abrogation and become useless There is one thing more I Congratulate to your Lordship this Year of your so eminent Magistracy in And that is An appearance of Zeal for the Retrenchment and Extirpation of open Prophaness Irreligion and Lewdness of Manners I cannot but have an Honour for any such undertaking and beseech of God his presence with it and Blessing upon it So far as it bears but a desire to prepare for if I may so allude a Temple for God in the Nation and I doubt not It will have the assistance of your Authority and other the Religious Participants of your Government But yet I cannot but hope Our Greater Solomon will be supreme in the Administrat●on and Raise it much higher then Man can do My Lord As to my self I cannot claim any particular Knowledge of or Interest in you but looking upon your Magistracy in 88 and 98 as Honoured with a Prophetickness I have on that Account taken the boldness to Inscribe your Name and I do very humbly beseech your Patronage of this Review under its Great Patron and the acceptance of this Dedication Till it shall be able as I hope it will within few Months be to Answer for it self to all that shall send to it or ask a Reason of its Hope as owned by that Higher Patronage publickly in the Eyes of all In the mean time as I most humbly beg the Prayers of all who Love the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ So my most Fervent and Earnest ●upplications shall be for the Magistracy of this Great City and their as Honourable Station in the Kingdom of Christ and most particularly for your Lordship Mo. 9. D. 12th 1697. My Lord Your Lordships Most Humble Servant In that Kingdom THO. BEVERLEY An earnest Invitation and Perswasion to All that profess a Reverence of the Divine Majesty to Regard the Works of the Lord and to take Pleasure in Searching them out in their Greatness particularly this Year By way of Preface to the following Discourse SEeing this Review rests upon the very Eminent Appearances of God in this present Year 1697 I think it no way Improper to prefix a serious perswasive deeply to consider the Operations of the Divine Hand and to search them out as Hidden Treasures It is the Atheism and Irreverence of the Divine Being and his Government of the World that we Lavish out his Great Providences into no other Discourses but as of News This is not the Business of a serious Christian and of those who have the Assistance of Sacred History directing us what observations to make upon those works and the Sure Word of Prophecy Guiding us what we are to expect by due Reflexion on what God hath done according to Prophecy to what he will do to the End of the World It is not enough for us with a shew of Great Wisdom and Foresight to Dilate upon the Political Tendencies of Great Events least we Fall into the Hipocrisy of the Pharisees who were able to make Natural observations on the Face of the Heavens but could not Discern the signs of the Times We ought as to make Improvement of Mercies and Judgments to search and try our ways and to turn unto the Lord to Praise Him for his wonderful Works to the Children of Men So to Vnderstand as the Sons of Issachar the Times that we may know what Israel ought to do how to order our Supplications