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A76490 A discourse upon the powers of the world to come, or, The miraculous powers of the Gospel, and kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ and their certain return at the kingdom of Christ in its succession / by T. Beverley. Beverley, Thomas. 1694 (1694) Wing B2138; ESTC R205346 146,914 191

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upon my Thoughts to make a Judgment according to the greatest Light I can Obtain from Prophecy upon these Three Years or till 97 what we may humbly Expect and especially under the great Phenomenon the Blazing Star as I may call it of the French Power here the Doubt Hangs between two Points which should cast the Scale 1. Whether the Progression of Providence in Preparation to the Kingdom of Christ may be expected to be Gradual or whether the Motion may be expected to be sudden whether things may continue much at a Ballance till upon that Time and that then the Divine Power may as all on the Sudden manifest it self and like it self work in an Instant and as it were in one Day I must Acknowledg as I have also publickly Declared I have been much more inclined to Hope tho not without as Freely Professed Fears and Doubts for Reasons as openly given that we should in these years have seen much greater Works of God because I estimated the Pace I thought Providence would choose and the steps it would take according to what hath been generally hitherto in the World But it Pleased the Wise and Holy and Gracious Governour of All things so to Direct that One peculiar Advertisement of Prophecy should even start out to me that tho I do not profess the same Confidence upon it as upon the Scripture Line of Time I have given yet I am Reduced by it to another kind of Expectation till 97 than I have had For in place of the wonderful Progress of Providence for the Pulling down the French Power the Change of the ten Kings and other the great Effects I expect at 97. I have now far greater Reason to Beleive There shall at present be only a Divine Interposition for the staying things much where they are and that there shall be neither a Remarkable going forward or backward VIZ. 1. That none of the Eminent Kingdoms that have Revers'd their Pow●r from the Beast shall ever be Re-Enthrall'd under that Power or shall Re-exchange their Protestant and as we stile it Reform'd State for a Papal Government which I now find to be the great Account of these so many late Extraordinary Revolutions within the Nations of England Scotland and Ireland and yet the Dawns Appearances and the very so much as Apprehensions of the Kingdom of Christ are so Reserv'd and make so small Offertures to the World or so much as to these Nations 2. That no one of the Ten Kings shall so much Exceed his Figure as to be more than one of Ten However some one may stretch himself every way to Grasp at Vniversal Monarchy and be so far succssful as to draw great Powers to himself that he may answer one Peculiar Note in Prophecy presently to be given in Memorial And this is that most Acquiescible and Satisfactory Resolution of the Mysterious Providence in Twisting a Confederacy betwixt Protestant Nations and so many of the Vowed Tributaries of the Antichristian Supremacy of the Beast whose Interest Lies as Deep in the Extirpation of Protestancy which they call Heresy as that of France and in Pure Bigottry to Rome much deeper and have been and now are as great tho more silent Oppressors of the Reformation within their own Territories and Persecutors of it if any appear for it But thus Infinite Wisdom hath Harmonized this State of the European Nations for his own Wise and Holy Ends according to Prophecy that the French Aspirings to Universal Monarchy may be Embarrass'd These things then being Premis'd I have very great Reason to Doubt and Fear The Protestant Princes and the Reformation under them shall Advance little higher till the Period it self 97 which I ground upon singular Remarks in that Prophesy of the Vision of Nebachadnezzars Image Dan. 2. First I observe in that grand Calendar of Time for the Kingdom of Christ The Descent of Time is by the parts of the Image and so by the Metals Assigned to the several as I may call them Regions or Parts the First or Beginning Point of Time is in the Gold of the Head or the Babylonish Empire Thence it goes down to the Breast and Arms of Silver the Persian Kingdom and from thence to the Belly and Thighs of Brass the Kingdom of Greece and so comes down to the Legs of Iron the First part of the Roman Pagan Empire and lastly To the Feet and Ten Toes part of Iron and part of Clay that is the Ten European Kingdoms into which that Pagan Empire was Divided when joyn'd with the Papacy and Hierarchy the Clay proper to each of those Kingdoms Now the Order and Distinction of the Parts and of the Metals of the Image is so Essential to the Vision and Prophecy is so exact there can be no change without great Reason and even great signification Designed by that Change and no chance in it The Order of the Parts and the Metals is given first Synthetically or Constitutively v. 32. 33. The Image's Head was of Fine Gold his Breast and Arms were of Silver His Belly and his Thighs of Brass his Legs of Iron his Feet part of Iron part of Clay The Conjunction therefore between the Iron and the Clay tho they did not mix one with the other must needs be very close in the Constituting the Feet and yet to make more clear this conjunction and order It is said when the Stone cut of the Mountain came to smite the Image the stroke was upon the Feet that were of Iron and of Clay Again v. 35. when the Method is given as they say Analytically or the Image in the Breaking is Resolv'd from its Bottom to its Top from the Foundation to the N●ck It is said Then was the Iron the Clay the Brass the Silver and the Gold Broken to Peices together and became like the chaff of the Summer Threshing Floor Before the Image was given from Head to Foot Here from Foot to Head But the Conjunction is kept most Inviolate and the Order considering forward First and then backward is the very same Now this Conjunction and order are so Essentially and Substantially Fix'd They can never be unfix'd any more This must be the Conjunction this must be the Order and nothing that Comes after it can Disannual it And yet when it comes to the last Catastrophe in the Interpretation of the Dream and so when the Event is suppos'd to come to its Complement that the Stone cut out of the Mountain without Hands Falls upon All and Grinds them to powder Then the Iron and the Clay are separated by the Brass that has nothing to do in the Feet but with the Belly and the Thighes only For they only were of Brass This is the very Order given by the Spirit of God in this last part of the Vision I Find upon search no Reason to doubt in the least there appearing no demurr on a Different Reading as it stands in the Chaldee Verity or the Syriac Version as