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A27580	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.	Beverley, Thomas.	1697 (1697)	Wing B2120; ESTC R12419	20,157	28

forth as the Great Prince to have That great 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that Fold that is a Court One Shepherd and One Fold In the Goodness and Faithfulness of the Spirit of Truth Guiding into all Truth Glorifying the Lord Jesus Christ by taking of the Things That are His and so of his Kingdom and shewing them to his Servants and shewing them Things that are to Come I have Great Assurance in his Tenderest Mercies having Led and Guided and Supported me thus far in the Search after his Kingdom and Manifested so much to me He will not Leave more to be ashamed of my Hope I can Humbly say before Him as his Servant Jeremy Oh Lord thy Words have been Found and I have Eaten them and they have been the Joy and the Rejoycing of my Heart I Humbly therefore Expostulate with Him Wilt Thou Wilt Thou be to me as a Lyar I know it is Impossible He should Lye He is God that cannot Lye And therefore herein His Servants may plead with Him The Vision shall not Lye He will not ●e a● Waters that are not sure of which he hath given so Lively ● Description in comparing the Unfaithfulness of Friends to The● My Friends have dealt Deceitfully with me as a Brook and ●s the Streams of Waters that pass away Which are Blackish by Reason of Ice c. But what Time they are warm They Vanish when ●● is Hot They are Consumed out of their Place the Paths of their ●y are turned aside They go to nothing and Perish The Troops of Tema Looked and VVaited ●he Companies of Seba were Confoun●●d Because they had Hoped they came thi●her and were Ashamed Jer. 15. 15. c. Job 15. 15. c. How fully does this Express what Jeremy understood by Waters not sure And how Applicable to My Case if the Hopes I have of the Kingdom of Christ should prove mistaken It may be said Indeed if I were sure I had the Right Sense of ●●ripture-Prophecy the Argument were enough sure I therefore ●erein Rely on his Grace that he hath Guided me into the Truth ●● his Word that as I am sure His Word cannot Fail He cannot 〈◊〉 so neither can any Iron any Created Power break the Nor●●rn Iron or prepared Steel of his Wisdom Truth and Power But lest any should say If you have such a Fasth have it to ●●r self before God and Happy are you if you do not find Reason ● Condemn your self in what you so much approve This therefore ●my Third Profession The things that I have so heard and seen by continual search into Meditation upon and seeking Divine Di●●tion in I cannot but speak I look upon the Kingdom as of ●ose Things wherein we should confess Christ and not be ashamed of ●● before Men who so despise his Kingdom and of those of which Confession is to be made with the Mouth uneo Salvation And therefore ●● have Humble Hopes That Jesus Christ hath been Graciously ●●as'd to draw out my Heart Thoughts Meditations to ●●ch Every Retirement of his Word therein above All that ●e been before me And to give me Greater Confidence and ●●surance and a more open Profession and Publication of what I have Found So that he will graciously Accept Remember Pardon spare me through the Multitude of his Mercies and not 〈◊〉 up to shame and Confusion of Face before Men and confess 〈◊〉 before his Father and before his Holy Angels That such a State of his Kingdom and such a Revolution with it and by it shall this very Year Appear to All th● World as hath never been since the Apostacy of Humane Nature and that therefore All Mighty Works shall shew forth Themselves in it The Spirit shall be poured out from on High The Wilderness shall Become a Fruitful Field viz. in the highest Purity and Prosperity of his Churches and that which look'd like a Fruitful Field become Desert even the Antichristian State and whatever partakes of it the Glory of All this World and the Grandeur of it and so the Everlasting Gospel shall be preached to every Nation Tongue and People and every Thing move to the Glory of that Kingdom To whom then Most Reverend and Right Reverend could I present equally as to you the consideration of these things who I am assured are so Richly Furnished with all Advantages of Learning both in that Sure word of Prophecy and in History and Chronology Correspondent therewith And whose very Title Imports the Office of Those who are on the VVatch Tower waiting for the Speaking of the Vision which will not Tarry beyond its Time And therefore should be able to Answer the Question VVatchman VVatchman what of the Night Or how Near is the Morning and who as Persons of an Elevated Station ought to Vindicate your selves by a Higher Zeal for the Kingdom of Christ and even by a Holy Haste to bring Him to his Throne above othe●● That you may not Fall under any Ombrage of the Anti-christ … Hierarchy who as Feet of Clay are found in the Undermine of the Kingdom of Christ and are Broken by the very First Openings of it as upon which that Image Rests that Stands in delay of that Kingdom How therefore should you be able to answer that Question What do you more than others for the Kingdom of the Chief Shepherd who hath it on his Vesture and on his Thigh King of Kings and Lord of Lords and who Profess to Attend upon him more Near and in Ordinary 〈◊〉 ●●st Humbly therefore submit this Apology to your Severest ●●ation and that as Prophets that is Persons above Ordinary ●●ted in the Sure Word of Prophecy for no otherwise can it be 〈◊〉 you would Judge The Grounds Themselves I freely tender to ●age and Learned a Christian a Protestant Presidency There is a 〈◊〉 of Intuitive Knowledge and Plerophory of Satisfaction I must with ● Reverence yet and Humble Fear Hope I have a Right unto as ●●per to the having seen together the Curious Lines of Prophecy e●l to the Curious Lines and Symmetry in the Works of God which ●● most Exact Astronomer Anatomist Naturalist Mathematician 〈◊〉 or can Observe I desire the Things I offer might be brought 〈◊〉 Seriousest Consultation and Debate as in the Days of Herod ●●erning the place where Christ should be born so now concerning ●● Time of his Kingdom Appearing It cannot be but most Great ● be near the proclaiming of the Kingdoms of this world to be the King●●s of the Lord and of his Christ How would it releive in All the ●ost Inextricable Labyrinths of the present Difficulties of Nations ● our Nation particularly to our King to the Councel of the Nation in ●●liament That He whose Right it is is now about to take to Him●● his Great Power and to Reign and to destroy them who have been ●●ong destroying the Earth I know the Paganizing Nations and Spirits will be very 〈◊〉 even at the Mention of these Things as Vtopian Imagi●● Fanatical and think to Scoff it off But as an Hidden and ●●ncealed Train that Gives Fire and hath its Effect in a Mo●ent so the Chain of Divine Councels the Predictions of ●●nisciency in All Times take Full Effect in their own Just ●●ments how Unawares soever the World be concerning them ●● He who is wonderful in Counsel and excellent in working ●● neither be out-witted nor over ruled What I offer can be onely from Sense of Duty to declare ●●at I have so Full Assurance of Duty as to the Great Re●●r of Prophetical Secrets the wonderful Numberer of the Times ● Prophecy so Duty to the Publick in the so Generally Ac●owledged Distress of Affairs For which my Constant Sup●●cations Ascend as also for You whose Most Christian Assi●●ce and Administration according to Your Higher Sphere I Beseech and who I Hope Count it Your 〈…〉 to Serve Him who is the Prince of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and therefore will not with a Gallio-like Spirit 〈…〉 any of these Things Most Reverend Right Reverend Your Most Humble Serv … In That Kingdom of our Lord T. BEVERLEY This First Month of the Year 1697. FINIS

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 ●zek 10. 13. As concerning the Wheels It was cryed to them in my Hearing Oh! Revolution LONDON Printed for and Sold by Will. Marshal at the Bible in Newgate-Street and John Marshal at the Bible in Grace-Church-Street 1697. An APOLOGY for the Hope of the Kingdom of Christ Entring Its Succession within this Now Beginning 1697. And an Answer of Principal Objections presented with It. To the Archbishops and Bishops as in Parliament at This Time Assembled Most Reverend Right Reverend I Have now by the Space of Fourteen or Two Weeks of Years been Serving for that Beautiful Rachel-State of the Church of Christ in the place of that Rachel in the Wilderness weeping for her Children in Sackcloth and under Death and would not be comforted Because They were not I have set my self all along by Meditation and Supplication to the Father of Lights to search out and by the Assistance of the Spirit of Prophecy to Find What or What Manner of Time the Spirit of Christ did signify for the Fullfilling that Grand Petition of his Servants Thy Kingdom come That thy Name may be Sanctified and Thy Will done as in Heaven and upon Earth and I am now Wrestling to the Break of Day and I Hope the Dawn of the Morning and Resolv'd not to Let Go Till I obtain the Blessing of it The Time that from the First and throughout it pleased the Lord of Time to fix upon my Mind as the Time of That Kingdom Entring into its Succession and Preparation for its Glory was and is This Approaching 1697. A Year to which I could have no Temptation either in Regard of Nearness or Distance or on any Account whatever but as a Scripture-Line of Time and Concurrent Reasons of Prophecy and History very many and in a Series and Continuation have Led me On this Foundation having Setled I have by Gracious Vouchsafements of Help from God Turn'd my Self to All the Grand Prophetick Points of Scripture and Found New Confirmations and have Given as Publick Accounts of them as I could attain and presented some of Them to Your Selves and to the Great Councel of the Nation And in as much as Supreme Goodness hath Granted me to Set up an Eben Ezer now at the Portal of 97. I have Thought it my Duty to offer this Apology for the Kingdom of Christ so near Approaching And that The Great Isaac The Son of Promise of Universal Laughter and Rejoycing The Desire of all Nations will Appear at a Set Time this Next Year the very Last of those Three Set Seasons Time Times Half Time Eleven Times expresly or Vertually Recorded in Scripture Prophecy and therefore I can have no Doubt But in the observing These so often Repetitions Remarking close upon Them and on what Accounts They are Recalled and to what Applied and Ballancing These One with Another I have Arriv'd to Full Assurance They are Assign'd to the Papal Last State of the Roman Monarchy the Last of the Four Kingdoms or Monarchies and the Four now Expiring in the Expiration of These Times and Half Indeed I look upon no Truth of Scripture to be more Plain and Certain except the Articles of Faith and Rules of Holy Practice necessary to Salvation Then that Those Four Monarchies are given as a Calendar of Time for the Embarrassment of the Kingdom of Christ or that Glorious State of Christianity which even the Prayers styl'd Establish'd by Law oblige the Belief Desire and Expectation of Scripture takes therefore so particular Notice of the Four viz. the Babylonian and Persian as is well known and Takes Account of Their Time of the Grecian more obscurely Yet the very New Testament in that Language and the so often Division of the People of that Time into Jews and Greeks is a very undoubted Owning Them as one of the Monarchies Out of which through a Great Part of the 70 Weeks the State of the World had been sliding into the Fourth the Roman Monarchy which Surrounds the whole New Testament History and Prophecy as is undeniable But assoon as ever the Time allowed to the last of these is at an End The Kingdom of Christ will immediately succeed and there can be no Inter-Reign Nor can any other Kingdom Interpose The Vision is so sure and its Interpretation so certain And such a kind of Kingdom it must be as was Congenially to have its succession so Connexed to those before it that tho it is a Holy a Heavenly a Spiritual yet it must be also a Visible Sensible Kingdom as to the Dominion and Glory of it and no Metaphor or Allegorical sense can satisfy without it And we know the Nations to which we belong are a part of the Ancient Roman Empire and Remaine still of the Ten into which it was canton'd Which Division hath been to me an Infallible Reason of Confidence France should no more prevail to an Vniversal Monarchy then the House of Austria hath done And herein for the keeping a within the Figure allowed its King by Prophecy I know God hath made our K. an Instrument All the Iron of it could never break the Northern Iron and Steel of the sure Word of Prophecy But seeing we I say are such a part of the Ancient Roman Em●ire we are the more concern'd and ought to be the more Awake an the Fullfilling of Prophecy as of the first of the Kingdoms of the World which is to become the Kingdom of the Lord and of as Christ. I have the same assurance that this Time Times and Half Time must be just on the Expiration By Prophecy we might rather have expected their End sooner The Wisdom of the Divine Spi … t draws them so very near to the Time of the Roman Empire Becoming Christian in all its Portraitures of the Anti-christian State As I know my self able by Divine Assistance to make out to the satisfaction of Any that will allow themselves the thought they know and yield necessary in any more retired Parts of Science That had I not the Faithful Evidence of the Scripture Line 〈◊〉 Time I have already mention'd together with uncontestable Events I should Fourteen Years ago have pitch'd upon some nearer Time For to mention one of the most obvious the very Casting the 1260 and Additional 75 so manifestly into Indictions a Fifteens of Years a Character of Time not Regulated and known till soon-after Constantine would have Enclin'd to have commenced them sooner I know the Hope for which I Apologize cannot but Encounter Great Objections but I am assured God hath set it and my self as a Minister of it as a Brazen Wall that tho it be Fought against It shall not be prevail'd