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

during his own and that out of Naturall and politique ends The first in that he was a cruell Tyrant whose will was a law and his Flatterers told him that all things were lawfull for the Kings of Persia upon which he married two of his Sisters against the Lawes of his Kingdome And for the second he had an intention to invade Aegypt and feared least the Iewes should prove such as his Provintiall Governours had written to him under the name of Artaxerxes of Ezra 4. 7. to the 23. that the Iewes and Inhabitants of Ierusalem were a rebellious people and tha● it was a common Opinion that the Iewes descended of those Nations because they issued thence under Moses when they conquered Iudea and that if their City were repaired and fortified they might give some disturbance to his intended Conquest of that Country as they had done in H●zekiah's dayes to Sennacherib when he went to invade Aegypt Wherefore he commanded them to be hindred in that work of the building of the Temple and City Which hindrance continued till the second year of Darius King of Persia Ezra 4. 24. the Successor of Cambyses or as the Scripture calls him Artaxerxes how he came to the Kingdome read Sir Walt. Rawleigh 3. book 4 chapter 4. paragraph who in that yeer gave order for the building of the Temple of Ierusalem at his own charge Ezra 6 7 8 9 10 11 The Iewes being incouraged unto this by the Prophets Haggai and Zacheriah Ezra 5. 1. which work was finished in the sixth year of the Raign of Darius Ezra 6. 15. though not ful●y because in the fourteenth verse he saith they builded and finished it according to the Commandement of Cyrus Darius and Artaxerxes Kings of Persia In the dayes of Artaxerxes the Successor if not Son of Darius in the seventh year of his Raign Ezra and his Company goe from Babylon to Ierusalem Ezra 7. 7 8 9. In the twentieth year Nehemiah obtaines leave to goe and build the walls of Ierusalem Nehem. 2. 1. who sets the King a time for his return verse 6. And in the two and thirtieth year he obtaines leave the second time to goe to Ierusalem again chap. 13. 6 Concerning what is spoken about Esther in the dayes of Ahashueresh who he was whether this King Artaxerxes or any other the Scripture is silent much might be said that he was or was not the same Person but it would be found a very difficult thing to make an agreement in severall Scriptures concerning the same Who were the succeeding Kings of Persia till the coming of Alexander the Macedonian the Scripture mentioneth not onely Daniel is shewd in a vision in the third year of Cyrus chap. 10. 1. what Kings there should be after him in Persia whose words are these And now I will shew thee the Truth Behold there shall stand up yet three Kings in Persia and the fourth shall be farre richer than they all and by his strength through his riches he shall stirre up all against the Realm of Grecia Dan. 11. 2. Now if we may give credit to Historians concerning whom this last rich King was they say he was Darius the Son of Arsames who was subdued by Alexander the Grecian or Macedonian which brings us to the fifth Head or Monarchy The fifth Head was the Grecian revealed to Daniel in a Vision of a He Goat or Rough Goat chap. 8. 5 21. as the Meades and Persians was a Ram with two hornes Dan. 8 3. 20. What this Grecian did we must be beholding to Historians for our knowledge the Scriptures Canonicall not mentioning any the Apocripha but a little that which is may be found in the first book of the Maccabees chap. 1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 verses which as he did much in regard he came to be a third of Daniels Beasts or Monarchies therefore it is said he carried his Victories with wings who from a small Kingdome extended it to a very great distance Eastward and Southward and Northward but withall it was but of short continuance as all violent things and motions are but twelve yeares being poysoned by the conspiracy of his Servants who stood in fear of his cruelty Upon whose death his large Dominions was divided though not presently among four of his great Captaines according to Daniels Vision chap. 8. 8 and interpretation verse 22. Iosephus names five viz. Antigonus was Lord of Asia whose Dominion being lost there his Posterity injoyed Macedon Seleucus Nicator of Babylon and the bordering Nations Lysymachus had Hellespont Cassander had Macedon whose Dominion ended with him his Sons being slain not long after his death And Ptolemy the Son of Lagus had Aegypt All which took the Titles of Kings on them in a short time onely Cassander whose Successor did take the same also though with ill successe Seleucus Nicator was the first that took the Title of King of Babylon and the bordering Nations his Son Antiochus Soter succeeds him and raignes nineteen yeares after him his Son Antiochus Theos raignes fifteen yeares his Son Seleuchus Callinicus twenty yeares and left two Sons viz. Seleucus Ceraunus who raigned three yeares and Antiochus the Great thirty six yeares who left Seleucus Philopater who raigned twelve yeares saith Eusebius seven yeares saith Iosephus and Antiochus Epiphanes which was he that commanded Swines flesh to be offered on severall Alters in the Temple at Ierusalem which caused much affliction and misery to the Iewes being a Type of that which Daniel Prophesied in his eighth chapter but cannot be the same as is apprehended by some because the Lord Jesus would not have told his Disciples by way of Prophesie what had been past but rather he told them what should be hereafter Mathew 24. 15. What the Successors of Alexanders Captaines did who had divided his large Dominions among themselves History doth declare This may be noted concerning them which is Sir Walter Rawleigs observation of them f. 555. that the Successors of Ptolemey were the first that made a League with the Romans and the last that were subdued by them Which brings us to the sixth Head Government or Monarchy viz. the Romans whose chief City was Rome which was built in or about the year of the world 3280. and after the building of the Temple of Salomon 287. and before the birth of our Lord Christ 684. whose greatnesse began to appear out of its infancy in the time of Pyrrus King of Epirus Successor to Cassander in half the Kingdome of Macedon taken from Cassanders Children by him and Lysimachus King of Thracia he being a powerfull Prince viz. Pyrrhus and they viz. the Romans but few yeares before freed themselves from the Gaules who had taken all from them yea Rome it self the Capitoll excepted and drove him out of Italy in or about 487. yeares after Rome was built and about 107. yeares after they take the whole Kingdome of Macedon with Perseus the last King thereof and

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