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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

of the Morning Star to the Day of the Kingdom of Christ in Succession from whence I conclude Their Deliverance is very near and They shall Break their Papal Oppressors as with a Rod of Iron in their Last Works 3. Seeing there is an Extraordinary Concurrence of Gracious Signatures of God upon our present Soveraign There is Great Hope God will stir Him up to Appear at this Time in so Honourable a Service as Scripture styles it as of Helping the Lord against Those Mighties And if God be pleas'd to stir Him up He will undoubted●y Appear with Him For I am Bold in our God to say I shall not be mistaken in our King as to some Extraordinary Service God hath to do by Him the Time being so near although Mr. Mede of a most Honourable Memory for his Apocalyptic Key was in that ever Noble Gustavus Adolphus the time being then so much further off and that on these Great Reasons 1. That He is the Third Descendent of that Great Prince of Orange by whom God was pleas'd in the Vnited Provinces to propagate the Protestancy and to give that Curbe to the grasp of that Time after the Vniversal Monarchy And because He Fell a Martyr in it and Receiv'd no Recompence from the Bounty of God Equal after the General Estimate of Providence to that Service I doubt not God hath Reserv'd it for his Posterity and for the Prince that He hath Rais'd at this Time to be so Serviceable to the Protestant Religion and Inspir'd with so much Zeal and Courage for it 2. Our King as Prince of Orange but now under Greater styles is One of the Princes and Nobles of France that as the First Works of those Churches were principally by Princes and Nobles proceeding of Themselves In the same manner shall their Last Greater Works be done In which Regard our King Appears an Instrument fitted by God as a Prince and Noble proceeding from Themselves 3. God made England a Help and a Succour by Queen Elizabeth to those Afflicted Churches though still the Greatest Effects were from Themselves so It is to be both Hoped and Prayed that as their Refugees have by a Superior Providence working for them Found even in the Former Reign however of contrary Sentiments Sanctuary here So much more Vigorous and Potent shall their Assistances be under not only a Protestant Prince but of so Eminent Love to and Zeal for the Protestant Religion As Already there are Great Evidences of the Love Zeal and Forwardness of the Supreme Councel of the Nation and their Unanimity herein and Greatest Effects are Hop'd and Pray'd for from thence 4. That very Oracle The Last Works of the Church of Thyatyra shall be Greater then the First is to me an Account why the Confederate Armies have had so low effects of their Confederacy Because their Princes and Nobles of whom our King is one shall proceed of Themselves 5. Above All I persevere that within the Six next Summers viz. in 97. The Kingdom of Christ shall be in its Succession the Antichristian and Turkish Tyranny shall Fall and a Great Re-Reformation Ensue And now it These Things shall seem of value to so Soveraign an Authority and to be every way Revered most Honourable an Assembly Let it please them to take Care that Consideration may be had whether upon Just Grounds what is or hath been offer'd can be Refus'd viz. on due Debates according to Records of Scripture Chronology History Reason and Experience without any other Reflexions then what enter into the Merits of the Cause For I Take to Witness the Searcher of Hearts that as what I have now written is not in Flattery or Dissimulation so what I have formerly presented with Relation to the Church of England hath not been from any undervalue of the Personal Holiness and Learning of any of Eminency or Lowest Name therein for whom I have all possible Love and Honour but on both sides from most Assured Grounds in Prophecy That God will in an Extraordinary manner be present with the King if He calls Him to Greater Services for His own Approaching Kingdom as It is most Earnestly to be pray●d He may His Honour and His Safety being therein Complicated and that those in Highest Stations in the Church of England may know The State of it and their present manner of State in it hath but few Years more of duration and that the Great Senate of this Nation may by understanding the Times and the Signs of Them know what They ought to do a Revolution so Great indeed being so near as 97. My most Humble Petition therefore is That if to the most Dread Soveraigns and to the High Court of Parliament It shall not be made to Appear That what hath been publickly offer'd as a Table of Scripture Prophecy and its Calendar of Time is upon Foundations either Inconsistent with Themselves or Contradictory to Scripture Chronology History or Reason There may be an Eye Had in all Consultations and Actions thereunto as to the Testimony of Jesus and so to the Spirit of Prophecy Seeing It is most Agreeable to all Christian and Protestant Reason God should give to so Illustrious a Soveraign Power Senate and to so Great Protestant Nations some signs of so Great and so near an Approaching Time And that Your most Self Abased Minister of Jesus Christ in these Prophesies may be supported and enabled to Revise Perfect and Publish his whole Table and present it together to so Supreme Powers as a Volumn that will within Six next ensuing Summers Justifie it self and further our Accounts at the Kingdom and Appearing of our Infinitely Paramount Lord Jesus Christ. And if This Petition Receive Favour let also the Councel of so Humble a Minister of and according to the Prophesies of Jesus Christ be Accepted to so Great Estates In which I Appeal to God I most Humbly and Earnestly pray I may speak as and only as the Oracles of God in these Four Moments of Advice from Prophecy Advice 1. That the Arms of the Protestant Refugees of France of the Vaudois of Protestants in general be more valued and under God more Relyed upon then mixed Confederacies with Kingdoms and States that yet Give their Power to the Roman Beast Give leave therefore to Weigh in the Ballance of the Sanctuary each part First shewing the disadvantages to be Feared in mixed Confederacies in Two Things 1. It ought to be well pondered that at this very Time All Princes and States who yet Give their Kingdom to the Beast are therein as yet in a State of War with the Lamb that is with Jesus Christ now about to Reprize wholly and perfectly his Kingdom from that Antichrist Now seeing the Main Cause of Dispute at this Time betwixt this Nation and France is a Protestant Government and indeed the Protestant Religion in general in the World Whether the Lamb will Accept the Service of Them who are in Actual War is much to be doubted

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

the King safe as through a thick Wood of Deaths to Cover His Head as by Miracle in the Day of Battle So to Poize the Motion of that Messenger of Death That it came so near as it were to Tell Him and All that Heard of it It could Go so far and no farther And as to the Success of the Expedition It is such as that the Principal City and therewith the Supreme Civil Power was immediately and so continues de Facto vested in the King And as a Seal of it the Former Prince God Remov'd from that Nation even as from this to declare Him the Second Time Intolerable to Prophecy And as to the delay of a perfect Conquest over the Irish though Ireland be in a daily Motion of Self Restitution under the Freest and Fullest Protestant Government since the Reformation Yet It is to be considered as under another Position of Prophecy then England or Scotland the Natives having been so devoted always to the Papacy until nearer the Great Revolution the Kingdom of Christ in Succession at 97. that it will be in a less entire Settlement 3. It was Affirm'd according to Prophecy That God would Secure the King's Interests in this Nation during his Absence And How even to Amazement was this done in the most Peaceable and even most Serene Administration of the Supreme Government by the Queen and in sending that Enemy upon the Coasts back again even after some Success and Insolencies of Appearance without effect in the main and notwithstanding a design lay'd so sure that it was thought Impossible by the Designers as some express'd Themselves without Miracle The Government should not Revolve on King James And in all this I have often declar'd God working for His own Names sake that is for the Kingdom of Christ's sake would pass over the mighty Provocatians of the Nation as is well known to us He hath done in all He hath done for us 3. A Third Great Event which gives me Assurance God hath vouchsafed me a True Judgment in Prophecy is That in the Beginning of the Summer in 87. When the Turkish Affairs gave such a Prospect of the Ruin of that Empire and as I express'd it the Turkish Fall seem'd to be on the Wing yet I did with all Freedom and yet with due Modesty in Honour to the Christian Name Declare and Publish as is yet to be seen That That Ruin or Fall could not be till the Tenth or Ten King'd Supremacy of the Great City of Rome should fall that the Turkish Woe might pass away so as that the Antichristian Apostasie on which it was and is a Judgment might be first so Animadverted upon by God that the Sinful demeritorious Cause and the Judicial Effect might pass off together Now how strangely that Turkish State hath been Repriev'd from Ruin notwithstanding the so many Stupendious Imperial Victories and its Intestine Confusions and how God hath given it the dreadful Face of a Woe again is worthy the Consideration of All that Bear the Name of Christians whether Roman or Reform'd And till the Forty Two Months granted to the Beast shall be at an End viz. 97. It s Constantinoplitan PORT shall not be DE-PORTED Although this Just now Re-Appearance of that Mahometan Force as a Woe and with Terror is very contrary to the declared Judgment of an Apocalyptic Interpreter of our own Nation so Venerable and so Learned that I defer every Thing to Him but only this That in many very Great Points He hath mist the True Key of that Prophecy Now seeing in All Great Predictions against which there are Confident Prejudices that They shall not come to pass Those prejudices are as shutting the Mouth of the Prophet that He shall not be so much heeded even in his General Discourses but styl'd a Fanatical or Brainsick person As God told Ezekiel when he was to foretell the Destruction of Jerusalem which the Jews thought imposible They should lay Bands upon Him as on a Mad-Man c. 3.25 c. 33.22 And this Generally continues till the Great Event Fullfill'd as it also Befell Ezekiel till the City Taken as in Symbol So possibly I must wait for that Great Opening my Mouth with Authority untill 97 or near it if God should please so Long to sustain me But yet as Ezekiel Prophesied at God's Opening his Mouth even all along as we find till the City taken And he that would might Hear and He that would Forbear might untill then Forbear So upon God's thus far Opening my Mouth by Ratifying my Predictions with so very notable Events I look upon it as my duty to present to the Supreme Authority and Councel of the Nation these Assurances beyond what I have assured upon the same Grounds 1. That the Aspiring of any of the Ten Kings of this Formerly Western-Roman-Empire to an Vniversal Monarchy contrary to that variety of Supreme Kingdoms God hath fixed in It under the Emblem of Ten Toes in Nebuchadnezzar's Image Dan. 2. c. 7. Rev. 13.1 and Ten Horns on the Head of the Fourth Beast viz. The Roman Monarchy in his Vision of the Four Beasts and which the Apostle John saw Crowned This Tenfold division is so settled by God that It cannot be changed until As They in Ten such Supremacies have Given their Power and their Kingdom to the Papal Beast as a Spiritual Vniversal Monarch that is an Vniversal Monarch in an Image as the Prophecy expresses it So in the same Ten Kingdoms as some have already They All shall Hate the Whore or Roman Church and so Recall their Power from the Beast As therefore the House of Austria Aspir'd and Fell Low in Power and Reputation in this Thirst after an Vniversal Monarchy Even so shall France And as the dissipation of the Spanish Armada against England was one very Remarkable Turn of the Scale with Relation to the House of Austria even so shall the French Attempts against England be Remark'd 2. The French Protestant Churches cannot be long without some Redress because the Time of the Antichristian Apostasie is now so near its end From whence and not from the Three Years and half of the Witnesses lying dead I collect this Assurance For I always look'd upon that as a mistaken Interpretation however espous'd by the Two so Learned and Reverend Persons Monsieur Jurieu and the Foremention'd Interpreter of our own Country Revel 2.18 c. But I look upon the Church of Thyatyra as the Emblem of those Churches of the Protestation that lye in the Bowels of Princes who yet own Antichristian Rome of which there is none so eminent and conspicuous as the French Protestant Churches either for the Greatness of their Body or for their Former Vindications of Themselves or for their Great Sufferings with whom the Vaudois are Allyed Now it is said Their Last Works shall be Greater then their First and as their Sufferings so shall Their Vindication be and They shall see the First Rising