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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27617	A memorial of the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ near approaching declaring according to prophecy, and advising upon the state of princes and nations, and of these nations in particular, what our Israel ought to do, in order to it, most humbly, and yet with the authority of sacred prophecy, presented to the King, and to the Queen, and to the high court of Parliament, and to all the judges of the nation / by T. Beverley ...	Beverley, Thomas.	1696 (1696)	Wing B2162; ESTC R37110	11,245	13

A MEMORIAL OF THE KINGDOM OF OUR Lord Iesus Christ NEAR APPROACHING Declaring according to Prophecy and Advising upon the State of Princes and Nations and of these Nations in particular what our Israel ought to do in Order to it Most Humbly and yet with the Authority of Sacred Prophecy Presented to the KING and to the QVEEN and to the High Court of Parliament and to All the Judges of the Nation By T. Beverley a most Humble Reader in the Prophesies of Jesus Christ IN the first place I look upon it as my duty to Produce my Credentials before so Awful an Authority to whom all Honour Reverence and Humblest Obeisances according to the Ordinance of Christ are from Me most due Even as from Them unto the Author of Prophecy The King of Kings and Lord of Lords The Credentials I Lay before this August Presence is Revel 19.10 The Testimony of Jesus concerning Things yet to Come to Pass however Receiv'd is the Spirit of Prophecy The Angel whose words these are was the Primier Minister of Prophecy from Christ to the Apocalyptical Apostle John John would therefore have Worshipp'd Him He Refus'd it upon this Account beside other Great ones The Testimony of Christ in Prophecy Receiv'd by John gave John an equal Character in the main with Himself the Angel Because the Principal Character in Prophecy is the Testimony of Jesus in any Point of Prophecy Even so whosoever are Guided by God into the True Sense of Scripture Prophecy are therefore and so far as They have indeed the Mind of Christ in his Testimony Equal even with the Apostle and with the Angel in the Spirit of Prophecy Seeing the Testimony and not the Ministery of the Testimony is the Spirit of Prophecy that is not only of the Supreme but of the Alone Authority and All the Ministers in that Testimony are Brethren and Fellow Servants Now that God hath been pleas'd of his own Free Grace and Pleasure and because so hath it Seemed Good in his Sight to vouchsafe to me I Humbly and Heartily Acknowledge to the Shame and Confusion of my Face before so Awful Supreme Powers on Earth the Chiefest of Sinners He hath been pleas'd on the most Earnest and Constant Attendances upon the Prophesies of his Word for these Seven Years last past by Meditation and Prayer and by Compare of the Grander and most Indubitable Revolutions of the World to vouchsafe to me a Clear and Consistent Table of Prophetical Scripture in Analogy to all Scripture and to which Those Revolutions have Answer'd even as Face Answers to Face in a Glass So that Having such a perfect Scheme in Agreement with Event I must needs have the same Assurance that I Have of the Analogy of Faith so Admirably Consenting with all True Reason Or that Anatomists have of the Compage of Humane Bodies or Astronomers of the Heavens Although I easily Acknowledge there is much more to be known then I have Attain'd or can Attain although I press forward yet with all my Might I have therefore made several Appeals in publick to All the Learned in Scripture in Chronology in History to shew the Inconsistences of the Scheme in Any part and have not yet Found Any either so concern'd for some Injur'd Truth in any of Those Discourses besides the Charity due from Christians to Any one in Error or for their own particular Sentiments that would undertake to convince it of Absurdity Although in the late Reign One particular Printed Writing Grounded on that Scheme Immediately directed against the Roman Communion Entitled The Call of God out of Babylon was of so Publick a notice as that some Books were seiz'd from my own Hand by the then Officers of the Press and as they said to be carried to the Councel And although I have presented some Parts of Them to the Bishops Particularly One call'd The Reformation to be Reform'd And I still Place my self at the same Judgment Seat My Second Credential is That of the Prophet Jeremiah When the Word of the Prophet is Come to pass Jerem. 28.9 Then shall it be known that the Lord hath sent Him I therefore Appeal to Three Great Events wherein Providence hath Set to its Seal that I have Truly Judged according to Grounds of Prophecy 1. That I have Freely and as Publickly as I could declar'd that when All Things seem'd to be moving towards it It would be wholly Impossible to Re-Inslave these Nations which were by the Reformation such an Eminent Appearance of Christ from Heaven Rescued from the Papal Tyranny And I thought it my Duty to pray as publickly as I had opportunity for the Conversion of that our then Prince as being Assur'd He must else by Death or some mighty Hand as it Fell out be Removed from the Government within a short Time His Administration being Intollerable to Prophecy in the measures which He was so Resolv'd to take And in the very Spring before his Removal the Epistle to the Reader in that Foremention'd discourse the Call out of Babylon I thus concluded And as for All Ambidexters Two Handed Achilophelians or Judasses who think to find it in their Account to be on both sides as They are now the private Scorn and Despisal of the Age so in Future Records and not long hence They will stand as Pillars of Salt which how soon after it came to pass in some very Remarkable Persons we All know and who in modesty to some Dead and some Living are not to be nam'd 2. The Second Event is What the Nation hath made Publick Acknowledgment of in a Sollemn Thanksgiving This Summers Expedition into Ireland of a Sovereign Established not only by Civil Sanction but by Prophecy on the Throne of the Former Prince Remov'd Now as to this Expedition by a Memorial presented just before it and I Hope still in many Honourable Hands of Those to whom I most Humbly present this It was according to Prophecy predicted 1. That the King 's Personal Presence with his Army in Ireland should be for his Honour And in Answer to this It may very well be call'd into doubt whether ever any Prince or General Acquired Greater Glory according to the Laws of Warlike Glory upon his own Personal Fortitude But Prophecy teaches us to Ascribe that Glory wholly to God as the Supreme Man of War as Moses styles Him in that Action and to Reserve only the Reflexion which is indeed Greatest Honour to the King whom God Commanded not to Fear 2. It was predicted That God would make it Appear He had Commanded Him and would by no means Forsake Him but would be with Him as in his Coming into England and would Return Him with Victory And thus it hath come to pass The King is Return'd with the Solemn Thanksgiving of the Nation to God and universal Acclamations to Himself And if any are otherwise minded They are as in a degree Silent in Darkness For God hath been pleased to pass