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A sermon upon Revel. II, 11, &c. summoning the expectation of the witnesses rising and of the great concurrent works daily shewing forth themselves, and to be compleat by 1697 : together with the surprizing confirmations of the line of time and the 1260 days of years ending 1697 ... / by T. Beverley.
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Beverley, Thomas.
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or Glorious Assembly Representing the Arche-Type or Original Pattern of a truly Glorious Christian Church-state which we have given Rev. c. 4. c. 5. 2. It signifies the enjoying this pure Church state and Worship with the Favour Countenance and Encouragement of Supreme Power and Authority carrying and bearing them out in what they do For so Heaven in this Prophecy often signifies even Power and Authority Thus Heaven signifies Rev. 12.4 where the Stars of Heaven mean Supreme Princes that the Roman Dragon or Imperial Power Brushed down with his Tail or Train of Armies and there is an Eye of the same sense in the naming Heaven all along in that Context Now for Those who are Trodden down by Power and Strength and have either been Affrighted from Worshipping God according to his Word to the great Wounding of Consciences Harrass'd and Dragoon'd as they speak into Idolatry and Superstition or Galley'd Imprison'd and Tortured to Death for Refusing whenever you shall see these Call'd up by a Loud Voice into Heaven into such an open avowed Worship of God according to his Word and according to their Protestations for Him and have Power and Authority in and with and of Themselves so to do This will be a great Effect of and according to Prophecy and because it is to Lead and Go before the Face of many other great Effects of Prophecy and All before 97. It therefore requires to be done within a Little Time and when you see it Know that it is a Dawn of the Morning-Star and that one of the Foremost in the Train of these Great Effects for the Kingdom of Christ is in your Eye and so that the Rest are coming on and the very Kingdom it self Coming upon us Effect 3. There must according to the Prophecy be such an Earthquake that the Great Cities Tenth shall Fall where by Tenth as I have always declar'd I understand its Decem Principality that Complex of Ten Kings that gives it its Grandeur For they giving their Power to the Beast or Pope of Rome and its Call'd Catholick Church and He bearing up that City and Church that sits upon His Supremacy as on a Mountainous Heighth whenever the Words of God are so fulfill'd in the Beast's having had his Forty Two Moons that they shall give their Power no longer but withdraw their Kingdoms from the Beast that Tenth of the Great City must needs Fall And it is very Remarkable that as here it is said The Tenth of the City Falls first in c. 17. it is said first They shall hate the Whore that is the Church of Rome But then it is intimated that the Reason is the Words of God are fulfilled concerning their giving their Kingdom Power and Might to the Beast for such a Time viz. the 42 Moons So these Two Things are made Reciprocal For whenever They Hate the Whore Then will be a withdrawing their Kingdom from the Beast the Words of God being at the same time Fulfill'd When they withdraw their Kingdom from the Beast They presently will hate the Whore and make her Desolate and Naked But either and both ways the Tenth of the Great City Falls That is the Greatness whose Symbol or Figure in Prophecy is Ten or Tenth because of the Ten Toes Ten Horns Ten Kings made Essential to the Antichristian State by Prophetick Oracles and within this Time Dan. 2. c. 7. even before 97. All these Kings shall thus hate the Whore shall thus Reverse Recall and Reprize their Force Power and Kingdom from the Beast because the words of God will be fulfill'd Some have done it at least in great part All shall do it then together and All shall do it to Perfection And it appears by this Prophecy they shall bring some Ruine and Desolation by Ravage and Fire on Rome it self as a prelude and fore running of that Final Desolation and Fire c. 18. And what will you say when you shall see the Empire Spain Portugal Poland the Catholick as they are call'd Cantons and even France and that first of the Rest do this You will Remember what I have this Day spoken in your Ears and you will then believe the Kingdom of God is coming nigh to you when you compare what I declare to you from the Word of God and what you see come to pass and you will easily allow That according to the usual Progress of Providence if This be to be done by 97 there had need be a speedy Beginning For you at this time I am sure will be more ready to say The Time is too short and strait even already for it to come so soon to pass And yet I must confess either this must be by 97 or the Exposition and Line of Prophetick Time I have given must Fall Effect 4. Seven Thousand Names of Men shall be slain in the Earthquake this mighty Change and Shake of Things There is I make no great Doubt some Allusion in these Seven Thousand to the Sabbatick Number of so great Use in All Things that concern the Kingdom of Christ as it is said Ezek. 39.9 They shall be Burning the Weapons of Gog Seven Years and cleansing the Land of Gog's Remains Seven Months v. 12. But how Admirably also does this set out the Multitude of Names Offices and Places in the Roman Papacy Hierarchy and Grandeur so great a Multitude that One would be Tempted to think the very Letter of 7000 is fulfill'd therein It requires much Learning in those Names of Men to make a Register of their Quality and Number Cardinals Archbishops Bishops Abbots Priors c. are known as Stars of greater Magnitude But there are those so out of common Ken and the Sporades the innumerable Lesser Stars that he must be more than ordinarily Learned that can call them All by their Names Now if you Live to see all these Slain as the Witnesses have been and as yet they lie Slain in France utterly Dispirited and with Them what ever is Deriv'd not to say Spawn'd from Them or bears Allyance or Affinity with Them even among those who are on the Part of that Synagogue of Satan Venerated under the Hoary Vizor of Antiquity shall Fall at the very same Time by 97. or very soon after and They be Bowing and Valing at Philadelphias Feet You will then say I have truly Expounded the words of the Lord to you But if you find no such thing I must lye Down in shame and confusion of Face and own to you I am found a False Witness of God and think my self indeed of all men most Miserable in saying God hath Declar'd he will do such things and by such a time in the sure Word of Prophecy which he hath not Declared nor will do But I have no Fear nor Distrust herein and yet I am very sensible as Jeremy Speaks When the word of the Prophet shall come to pass then it will be known The Lord hath spoken by him So I that pretend to no
Impulse to no Impression but to Argue upon the very written Word and Letter of Scripture in compare with it self may Humbly say when these things come to pass Then you will know that by holding to the True Sense of the Testimony of Jesus by his Prophets That true sense is the Spirit of Prophecy and I have aright given it to you When you shall hear of and see a far greater Slaying these Names of Men throughout the Christian Profession than when King Henry the 8th here in England slew that i◠Dis-Authorized so many Names of Abbots Priors Monks of several Orders and Distinctions of Fryars and laid them in the Dust You will then call to mind what I now make known to you and Believe This is indeed according to the Testimony of Jesus and to the Spirit of Prophecy I wait therefore to see what God will herein do and when he will begin to Work For when he will begin Nothing shall Let Him His Reward is with Him and his Work before Him Event 5. The Remnant shall be Affrighted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They shall be Magor-Missabibs Fear round about all Fear and so shall give Glory to the God of Heaven that is there shall be abundance of Conversions to the Power and Purity of Christian Religion So that every way the Potentacy of Rome and its Papacy and Hierarchy must Fall 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For the Remnant All Successions of Men to the Kingdom of Christ shall Hear and Fear For They shall wisely consider Gods Doing and shall be afraid to Joyn themselves to a False Religion that God hath so Remonstrated from Heaven against And this is indeed to give Glory to the God of Heaven Event 6. The Second Woe viz. That of the Mahomet an Turks shall be wholly cessated and pass away So that the Grecian Churches however so Dark now under the very Black Wings of Antichristianism shall come out of Both Slaveries They that have lain among the Pots shall be made as the Wings of a Dove covered with Silver and her Feathers with Yellow Gold That Great Name of Power and Tyranny Grand Signior and Sultan shall be dismounted from the Hills of Constantinople on which it is seated as a Nova Roma as it ought to be that it may be a Woe on Old Rome and from that confluence of Seas and their Bosphorus in Regard of which it claims to be as the Port or Haven of the World Thus Daniel of Old prophesied of that Turkish King of the North planting his Palace between the Seas But then to the Wonder and Amazement of the World He shall come to his End and none shall help him However he is now holpen by France All shall be Removed as a Cottage or Shepherd's Tent and the Seven Asian Churches whose Candlesticks and Lights have been Covered so long under that Night shall begin again to look Bright When you see this come to pass you shall know there hath been a Scripture-Prophecy concerning it And if This be to be done by 97 how should we cry out Awake Oh Arm of the Lord Awake put on strength as in the Days of Old I come in the Second place to Argue upon the Time when This is All to be according to this very Prophecy And This is the general Expression of it After Three Days and a Half Now this may look as if the Three Days and a Half were to be fully past and ended and so nothing would be to be Looked for till 97. were fully come and past according to my Calculation of Time And then these Great Events would find place and Room for Themselves to come on But as I have always endeavour'd to make out These Three Days and a Half are Equal with the 1260 Days except only as a deep part is particularly implied when that whole and intire space is yet preserv'd and express'd And it is therefore given in Three Days and a Half by a Little Variation from Three Times and a Half that it may bear a Resemblance to the Three Days of our Lord in the Grave viz. the Evening of the First Day which is our Sixth Day or which we not so Agreeably with Scripture Language because in Gentile Times call Friday the whole of the Second which was the Seventh Day and the Jewish Sabbath and the Night till towards Morning of the Third Day which was the Jews First and our Lord's Day And this Rising was in the Night towards Morning as the Jews from the Creation Account the Night of every Day before the Day For John 20.1 we are Assur'd Early in the Morning while it was yet Dark Mary Magdalen came to the Sepulchre and found Christ Risen yet as it were on purpose to Expound to us the After Three Days and a Half here in this Prophecy This very Manner of Rising of our Lord so far as can be perceiv'd by Compare of the Evangelists as soon as ever the Seventh Day or Sabbath was past and his Third our Lord's Day but just entred he Arose This very Manner of Rising I say again on the very Entrance of the Third Day In both 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is call'd Mark 8.31 After Three Days even as here After Three Days and a Half Thus there was Liberty for a Partial Rising of the Witnesses as soon as ever it was Half Time which Fell out in Luther's Appearance 1517. exactly according to my Account of Time Then the 180 years of Half Time entred which shall therefore end 97. according to that Exactness And this first Appearance of the Reformation by Luther was like the Appearance of Christ in his Resurrection It was some Time he had been Risen how long we cannot certainly find e're it was any way known on Earth He was Risen All that Day But He was very Retired Appearing only to some very few of his Disciples as if still Dead But in the Evening even then when the Doors were shut for Fear of the Jews Christ miraculously pass'd through the shut Doors and Appear'd to the whole Eleven except Thomas and gave Them with the Solemnity of Breathing on Them the Promise of the Spirit tho the Spirit it self did not come down till Pentecost was fully come And thus I doubt not at the Latter part of Half Time tho All Doors seem now close shut and there is so great a Fear of False Jews or Antichristian Tyranny in so many places that the Witnesses cannot meet Boldly yet that Christ will make his way through all Bars And as there was a Partial Rising at the First of Half Time that hath been hitherto with much Reservedness yet All will now open in the Evening and there will be a Spirit of Life a Breathing on all the Witnesses by the Spirit of Christ tho the full pouring of it out will not be till the Kingdom of Christ in its Succession after 97. in the Days of the Seventh Trumpet when the 144000 shall appear with