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A46359	The accomplishment of the Scripture prophecies, or, The approaching deliverance of the church proving that the papacy is the antichristian kingdom ... that the present persecution may end in three years and-half, after which the destruction of Antichrist shall begin, which shall be finisht in the beginning of the next age, and then the kingdom of Christ shall come upon earth / written in French by Mr. Peter Jurieu ... ; in two parts ; faithfully Englished from the new French edition, corrected and enlarged by almost a third part, with the explication of the visions of Daniel and the Revelation.; Accomplissement des prophéties. English	Jurieu, Pierre, 1637-1713.	1687 (1687)	Wing J1196; ESTC R6542	384,320	621

was establisht with a terrible havock such as a hideous monster that should rise out of the sea and of an enormous greatness would cause making the waves to foam blowing the water with his nostrills and sending out terrible bellowings 'T is the emblem of the manner wherby the Roman Empire was establisht This Beast hath seven Heads The Spirit explains this of so many Kings and so many mountains The seven heads are seven Kings and seven Mountains See here the Character of Rome together with its Empire It sits on seven Heads that is to say on seven Mountains and it had seven Kings that is to say seven forms of Soveraign Governments We have already reckon'd them up in the foregoing Chapter 1. Kings 2. Consuls 3. Decemvires 4. Tribunes of the people 5. Perpetual Dictators 6. Emperours 7. Popes He hath ten Horns The Prophet doth not say how these Horns were distributed on the Heads But however it is certain The ten Horns are only on the seventh head that they were all on the seventh Head that is to say on the Head of the Popes For 't is under the Papal Dominion that the Roman Empire is divided among ten Horns that is to say among ten Kings Europe that obeyeth the Pope is divided into ten Principal Kingdoms 1. Germany 2. Hungary 3. Poland 4. Suedeland 5. France 6. Spain 7. Italy 8. England 9. Portugal 10. Scotland The other Kingdomes and States were dependencies on these From the first division of the Roman Empire that happened in the fifth Age the partition was made among ten Kings also as we shall observe afterwards Horns always signify power in the Scripture this is known So that these ten Horns must be powers But no signify that these Powers are Soveraign ones and not subordinate the Spirit gives them Diadems They are Soveraigns in name but in truth they are dependents on the seventh head which is the Pope and the Papism For the Papism subjects all Kings to the Pope On the heads there is a name of blasphemy This is not on one of the heads but on all of them And the name of blasphemy is that of the Queen of the universe which she vvould always bear since she attained to her greatness Terrarum Dea Gentiumque Roma 'T is the title of Rome eternal as Saint Ierome hath observed Ad Algas quaeft 11. The Roman Emperours made themselves be called your Divinity They built Temples to them they burnt incense to their Genius they sacrificed to them The seventh head hath also its names of blasphemy The Pope is called his Holiness Vice-God God on Earth Vicar of Jesus Christ Rome under his Dominion is called infallible Rome eternal Rome The Dragon give him his power 'T is the Devil which gives to the Roman Empire the false Religion the idolatries and heresies by which it makes war against God the ambition the cruelty and the covetousness by which it makes war against men And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death 1.3 and his deadly wound was healed and all the world wondered after the Beast The Prophet doth not say what head was wounded but it can't be doubted but that it was the last save one For that which comes in the place of that which is wounded lasts to the end Therefore the head wounded to death must be the sixth and the resurrection of this head must make the seventh head or the seventh Government The sixth head is that of the Emperours 'T is wounded by the Goths and the Vandals The Roman Empire is destroyed But it rises again under another head and a new kind of government viz. that of the Popes De Donat Constant In the power of the Papacy is brought forth again if not the grandure of the ancient Empire yet at least a form of government that is not very much different from that by which all the nations once obeyed the Emperours 'T is the confession of Steuchus Bishop of Agobio All the World wondered after the beast The Earth being astonisht to see the Roman Empire establisht under the new name of the Roman Church follows this new Beast submits to this Church being ravisht with this dignity that appeared to list up Christianity to the height of grandeur it submitted to this Chimoera of the spiritual and temporal Principality of the Church of Rome And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies After this v. 5● 't is only the seventh head that is treated of which is called the Beast simply because 't is the longest duration of the fourth Monarchy 'T is therefore this seventh head the Pope and the Papism that brings forth these great things Can there be any thing greater than that which the Roman Church saith of it self that she is the Spouse of Christ the Queen of all the Churches the infallible Judge of all controversies the Ark out of which there is no salvation the Divinity to which all nations must pay homage the common mother of all Christians the Soveraign of the Kings of the Earth that can depose them transfer their Crowns and give them to whom she thinks fit see the great things and these great things are blasphemies This is clear For to attribute that to her self which belongs only to God is to blaspheme And power was given to him to continue forty and two months 'T is still the seventh head that is treated of 'T is to it that the period of forty and two months of twelve hundred and sixty days that is to say of twelve hundred and sixty years is assigned 'T is clear that these forty two months do not respect the entire Beast that is to say the seven heads or the seven Governments for after the third verse 't is only the seventh head that is spoken of Moreover the seventh Monarchy in its whole extent hath lasted almost twice forty two prophetical months as we have before observed 'T is therefore the duration of the Antichristian Empire or of the second period of the fourth Monarchy that must be extended to 1260. years He opened his mouth in blasphemy against God. ● 6. 'T is to blaspheme God to attribute to it self his power as the Roman Church doth against his name that is to say against his glory The Papism ravishes away the glory from God to give it to the creatures Against his Tabernacle that is to say against his Temple and his Church in calling the true Children of God which are his house heretiques and schismaticks Against them that dwell in Heaven These are the Saints and Angels of whom the Papism makes idols and whom by consequence it greatly injureth And it was given to him to make war with the Saints v. 7. and to overcome them 'T is well enough known how the Papism hath employed Anathemaes thunders fire and sword to extinguish the truth and to destroy the faithful And I beheld another beast coming out of

into the lesser waters For here a Mountain of fire is much more than a star of fire tho in truth a star is a thousand a thousand times bigger than a Mountain But the H. Spirit frames his speech according to appearances hath chiefly are spect to those fires that are often seen falling from heaven which are called Falling-stars Joseph Mede with all other Interpreters would find in this Mountain of fire this Starlike a Lamp much more of mystery than is in it pretending that this means some great person distinguisht by his dignity as a king or an Emperour or by his knowledg as a great Doctor Therfore many by this star understand a great Prophet But 't is not so This must be explain'd with relation to the first Trumpet we must know that this is but the sequel of the history of the destruction of the Roman Empire by the Barbarians The first part of this destruction was but Hail mingled with Fire a common storm such as often happens in summer wherin thunder lightning in hot countries are always mingled with the hail But afterwards this inundation of the Barbarians increased in such a manner that it was no longer an ordinary storm There fell not only Fire mingled with Water Hail this Storm becomes wholly pure fire a fall of terrible Lightning a true Mountain of Fire that fell on the Roman Empire over-whelm'd it Afterwards the fire continued to fall on a third part in truth no longer as a Mountain but as a fire-brand such as the stars are that appear to fall in the air See therfore here three fires The First is mingled with Hail The second is meer fire great as a mountain The third is as a great Lamp. The First afflicts the Trees of Europe or of the third part of the World. The second falls into the sea changes it into blood The third falls on the rivers fountains makes their waters bitter This evidently signifies the three first degrees of the Barbarians invasion They come at First like fire mingled with hail which burns the trees like a storm that spoils the fruits of the Earth They pillaged the Goods the Riches of the Empire The mountain of fire that falls into the sea is Alario that made Italy desolate took Rome 2ly They come like a meet fire that consumes devours They fell on the sea By that I understand the people of Italy the taking of Rome by Alaric Italy was in respect to the Roman Empire what the sea is in respect to the rivers The sea is the center the rivers are all round about it The sea is the gulf the rivers come from all parts to pay their tribute to this gulf Rome Italy was the midst of the Empire Rome was the sea whither all the Provinces came to pay their tribute their riches Alaric his Goths falls like a burning mountain on Italy the city of Rome he takes it and sacks it This sea becomes blood Italy was filled with slaughter After this the Barbarians suffer'd themselves to be appeased Alaric after he had taken Rome and made there a new Emperour named Attalus with whom he went to besiege Honorius in Ravenna gave peace to Honorius quitted Italy retired among the Gaulls where with his Goths he establishthimself The Vandals possessed Spain The Burgundians staid on the Rhone The Huns inhabited Pannonia And then the Fountains the Waters i.e. the people that depended on Rome felt the force of this fire of the judgment of God. But this fire did not turn the waters into Blood because then the slaughter ceased the opposition ceasing the Barbarians saw themselves Masters But they turned the Rivers and the Fountains into Wormwood i. e. They reduced the Roman Provinces into a bitter Servitude And by reason of this the name of Wormwood is given this last Fire that is to say this last Judgment and Punishment less than the former but yet so great as to make the people live in Bitterness For the Goths spoiled them of their Lands Goods See the Mystery of the second and third Trumpet I have no need to give notice that the third part of the Sea and the third part of the Rivers signifie the Sea and the Rivers of the third part of the World i. e. of Europe For I have given notice already of that once for all In truth they were the People of Europe that suffered these Desolations V. 12. And the fourth Angel sounded and a third part of the Sun was smitten and the third part of the Moon and the third part of the Stars so as the third part of them was darkened and the Day shone not for a third part of it and the Night likewise The Fall of the Reman Empire 'T is still the same Figure that rules that is to say that the Sun of Europe which is the third part of the World was darkened in like manner the Moon and Stars We must remember that in the Prophecies the Sun Moon and Stars alwayes signifie the Powers of a State. The Heaven of the politick World is the superior Region of Dignities that sheds kind or malignant Influences on the People We shall see this constantly observed in this Book in such manner that in all places where the Sun Moon and Eclypses are spoken of 't is unquestionable that we must understand the darkening and destruction of the sovereign Powers in the State or Empire spoken of Now what Empire is it that is here spoken of 'T is the Empire of Rome For yet once more we must stick to this Principle as one of the principal Keys of the Revelation viz. that it moves wholly on the Roman Empire and that 't is properly nothing but a Comment on what is said of the fourth Beast in the 7th chap. of Daniel The Roman Empire and în part the Invasions of it by the Goths and other Barbarians being here treated of there is no room for doubting but that the Sun of the third part of the World which is smitten signifies the Sovereign of Rome the Roman Emperor the Moon is the Imperial Dignity the Stars are the Grandees of the Empire And 't is the Extinction of the Roman Empire of Italy that happen'd in the year 455. after the Death of Valentinian the 3d when Genseric came from Africa with his Vandals took Rome and sackt it fifteen days one after another after which the Empire was torn among tell Kings according as St. John foretold it in the sequel of this Book CHAP. VII An Explication of the Visions of the fifth sixth Trumpet wherin are seen the Empires of the Saracens Turks THis fall of the Imperial dignity at Rome in the fourth Monarchy is a great affair Therfore the H. Spirit stays upon it makes a pause as a mark of distinction as we have before observed But that which follows also is a great affair

signifies Locusts They were the terror of the East Therfore the Poets made of them Women with wings devouring all they saw which came up from Hell Stygiis sese extulit undis Exactly in the same manner as these according to St. John ascended out of the bottomless pit So the Prince of the bottomless-pit viz. Pluto is looked on as their Prince among the Poets in the Pagan Theology for 't is he that in that Theology is called Serapio instead of Serarpis or Sararpi i. e. Prince of Locusts in the Phaenician Hebrew Tongue just as the Phaenicians called the same Pluto Belzebub i. e. the God of flies The flies locusts being two great plagues to the fruits plants of the Earth Pluto was thought to send these plagues Therfore he is call'd their Prince 'T is to this I say the Prophet alludes he would tell us that the Saracens should be like these winged women called Harpyes that ascend out of Hell that have Hooks instead of Teeth that devour all things In truth the Saracens Arabians were always professed Thieves 'T was by covetousness pillaging much more than by slaughter that they made the East desolate These Locusts had Tails like Scorpions stings in their tails All the world knows that the tail the sting in the Serpent is the seat of venome poyson And poyson is the Emblem of false Doctrine Which signifies not only that the Arabians should carry desolation death every where but also the venom of a detestable Religion Therfore 't is the Devil is called a Serpent a Dragon by reason of the poyson of false Religions that he spreads Lastly they have for their head the Angel of the Bottomless-pit called Abaddon in Hebrew Apollyon in Greek i. e. destroyer This is not the description of the Devil as Joseph Mede believed 'T is the description of Mahomet a Monster arising out of Hell as well as the Locusts The Angel of the Bottomless-pit Angel signifies Pastor messenger we must observe once for all that the name Angel in the Revelation doth not signify a species of those Spirits that are so called Angells Deviis 'T is the name of an Office given sometimes to J. Christ sometimes to Pastors sometimes to men that are Instruments in Gods hand sometimes to Spirits separated from matter So that the Angel of the Bottomless-pit signifies here no other thing than the false Pastor ascended out of the Bottomless-pit He is called Destroyer because in truth there never was a man in the world that destroyed so many men both as to Body Soul. Then the sixth Angel sounded Ch. 9.13 I heard a voice c. which said to the sixth Angel loose the four Angells which are bound in the great river Euphrates And the four Angels were loosed which were prepared for an hour a day a month a year The Turks their in vasions on the fourth Monarchy This is the second of those Woes that were cried Wo Wo Wo. These three Woes all have relation to the Roman Empire in its second period i. e. in its Antichristian period The first Wo is the birth of the Saracen Empire the Religion of Mahomet The second blow is the irruptions of the Turks They must be found in the Prophecies that respect the Roman Empire for they take up too considerable a part in the history of this Empire Now the Turks will not be found any where else but here they must therefore be here And without doubt they are here VVhat the four Angels in Euphrates signify What we said just now must be remembred that the name Angel in the Revelation signifies Office not a species of Spirits See here four Angels bound in the Rive Euphrates loosed These can't be good Angels for the good Angels are not bound They can't be Devils for the Devils are not bound in some places of the Earth more than in others So that these four Angells signify four Messengers of the Anger of God four instruments of his Justice whose violence till this time he restrain'd whom afterwards he leaves wholly to their fury for the punishment ruin of the Roman Empire as well in its Eastern as its Western branch These four Angels therfore signify these four Sultanies which the Turks establisht round about Euphrates in the regions of Asia the less Syria All that have read the history of the Crusadoes know that the Christians in the end of the Eleventh age found them establisht in those four principal seats Nice Damascus Antioch Aleppo The founders of these Sultanies had been kept behind Euphrates for some time But in the tenth Eleventh age they were let loose they overflowed the Greek Empire which made a part of the Roman Empire they pusht on their Conquests as far as Nice the capital City of Bythinia i.e. almost to the very Gates of Constantinople They afflicted all the Coasts of the Mediterranean-Sea Greece Sicily and Italy and at last they entirely destroyed the Empire of the Greeks by the taking of Constantinople which happened in the year 1452. This is what is meant by these words The four Angels were loosed to kill a third part of men The Turks are sent to destroy the Roman Empire We must remember what hath been said in the explication of the first Trumpets viz. that the third part in these Prophecies signifies the Roman Empire because that took up about a third part of the World. The Turks are sent to kill the third part of men i. e. to kill the men of the third part of the Earth or of the Roman Empire or of the fourth Monarchy The Locusts of the fore-going Trumpet were sent not to kill men but to torment them for five moneths because the Saracens and Arabians did only gnaw off the edges of the Roman Empire and did not penetrate into its entrails But the Turks pierced even into the very heart of the fourth Monarchy and laid it desolate and they have establisht their Empire in one of its capital Cities viz. Constantinople They are sent to kill the Men of this third part of the World. Indeed never was there seen so horrible a Butchery of Men and so great an Effusion of Blood as that which the Turks have caused in their Irruptions in attacking or in defending themselves in the Crusadoes I am perswaded all the Conquerors together since the beginning of the World never shed so much Blood. To Kill signifies also a total Destruction So that the Prophecy seems to signifie that the Turks are sent of God entirely to destroy the Roman Empire They have already destroyed the Eastern Branch of it the seat whereof was at Constantinople and there are some that conjecture that God designs them also to destroy the Western Branch whose Seat at this day is at Rome God only knows this But tho the Turks should do no more than they