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An apology for the hope of the Kingdom of Christ appearing within this approaching year, 1697 wherein some of the principal arguments for such an expectation are briefly couch'd and the greater objections answered : presented to the notice and examination of the arch-bishops and bishops now in Parliament assembled / by T. Beverley.
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Beverley, Thomas.
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1697
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Wing B2120; ESTC R12419
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Observation wherein Divine Super-Intendencies upon all Historians concerning it to Fix the Beginnings of it in 1517. does so assure the Beginning of Half Time as to assure also the End of Half Time as of an 180 Years and so of Time and Times at 1697. and therefore the Beginning of Times or the Two Times at 797. and of the First Time at 437. The Times and Half are contrived therefore into such Large Cantons of Time as One Time Two Times and Half a Time that They may be seen in so Large Spaces and so much together and yet in such Minute Exact Divisions as Days of Years especially and on purpose that they might be fully known and exactly understood all along and at the End which with so many Concurrences before-nam'd and of which I should be most Ready to Give the particular State more at large to a Free and Desirous and a Judicious Recipient does not make it strange to determine so particularly upon 97. and may free from that Objection But what is there of Preparation to so great a Change or what Instruments in view for such Effects may it be said To which this Answer is to be given That when we have to do with Him who Planted the Heavens and Laid the Foundations of the Earth who telleth the Number of the Stars and calleth them All by their Names and appoints them every one their Course to Fight in Nothing is Hard. Or how wonderful soever it be in our Eyes can it be so in His Who works his signs and his wonders in Heavenâ— and on Earth and none can stay his Hand or say unto him what doest thou who works and none can let it Hath he spoken and shall he not do it Is Any Thing too hard for me sath our Jehovah And as to Means and Instruments altho he could raise them if he pleas'd Yet His Word of Propheby so expresses the doing of it as if he would make use of No Hand but his own The Stone cut out of the Mountain is not in Hands That Power that stands up against the Prince of Princes shall be broken without Hand Now this without Hand is a manner of speaking the Spirit of God is pleased as by the Translation of it from Daniel into the New Testament to Apply a Tabernacle made without Hands the Circumcision without Hands the House not made with Hands Eternal in the Heavens appears to be an Expression of God working by an Immediate Power of his own and by Himself It is by a Spirit of Life from God and by a Voice from Heaven The Four Wheels â—f the Four Monarchies are brought into the Temple under the Cheâ—â—bims and without any more ado It was cried concerning them in â—y Hearing the Hearing of the Servants of God Oh Revolution It immediately pass'd upon them All and there were Loud Voices â—â— Heaven upon it proclaiming that Revolution The Kingdoms of this World are bocome the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ And this is done at Half Time Ending which signifies Suddenness and Sâ—rprise When this is done He who does it Comes with strong Hand His Arm Rules for Him He understands his own Work In the midst â—f All the Perplexities of it His work is before him He understands â—â— perfectly and throughout Every Spring every Wheel to be moâ—ed Every Pin of Connexion But that which may much indeed Terrify and Discourage is the Great Unworthinefs of All Sorts and Degrees of Men of Nations and even of Churches so that some very Sweeping Judgment â—â—d Desolation rather or at least is first to be expected The Hope yet is That when God works for his Kingdom and seems â— be Lifting up his Hand to Destroy He will work for his own Names 〈◊〉 in a Deliverance He will consider He to whom the Kingdom â— to be Given is worthy And when the Lord Jesus Christ the Anâ—â— of the Covenant comes into his Temple He does not expect to â—â—d Refinement ready to his Hand but He comes to Refine He hath â—â—ven an Example in the Apostle Paul of All Long-suffering and Paâ—â—ce especially prepared for that very Time Those who shall Hereafter in a great distance of Time Believe on Him His Reward â—â—â—th Him He expects it only from Himself when his work ie so â—â—re him And even to Impenitents there is first a time of Warning â—â—d Testimony and then the Day that will Burn as an Ouen and the â—iâ—ked are as Ashes under the Soles of the Feet After this warning is â—he perdition of ungodly Men reserv'd for punishment I know very well Notwithstanding all this Assurance and â—e Reason of it I have given It will be said yet to me Seeing â—â—is Year â—7 is in so near on Approach and there are no Appearâ—â—ces of such a Succession or opening of the Kingdom of Christ â—ght it not therefore to shake your Confidence and put a diffiâ—ence upon such a continued Affirmation of such a Kingdom to â—ake any Entrance at this Time In Answer to this I would make this Humble Profession or Confession in these Three things First I cannot be shaken in my assurance Because I find my Grounds in the Word of God unshakable and unmoveable A False Witness that hath no Foundation Perisheth in this Sense He cannot Bear up to nor continue in his Testimony But He that Heareth and knows on what Grounds He speaks Affirmeth constantly He that hath seen nothing as the Ground of his Prophecy is like a Reed shaken with the Wind But they that have the Word of the Lord Continue to speak it While I am so certain The Kingdom of Christ Enters its Succession without any delay whenever the Last of the Four Kingdoms Ends That the Third Woe of the Seventh Angel that Sounds the Kingdom of Christ Cometh quickly I look to see therefore what assurances there are this Last Kingdom even its Last State is upon giving up I find then the Times and Half Which are the Term of the Last State of the Last Kingdom By the Time since Constantine By the Time since the Christian Empire Demised By the Time since Mahometanism and more Particularly the Ottoman Empire hath entred the World By the Time since the Reformation first entred by Luther just ending All these have such Lively Sculpture and Engravings in the Sure word of Prophecy and their Times so Delineated I do not better know the Course of the Months in the Year the Days in the Month or the Hours in the Day then I know the very Last Year of the 1260 Days of Years is now entring and to Run its Circle and that within its Circle the Kingdom of Christ will come into its Succession The Second thing that I most Humbly desire to be Stedfast Unmoveable Unshaken in and upon is the Exceeding Râ—â—s of the Grace and Loving Kindness of God in Jesus Christ â—e Great High Priest and Apostle of my Profession That Shepherd of the Sheep that is to Shine