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A27615	The late great revolution in this nation argued according to Rev. 17. 16. 17., to be duely ascribed to the supreme spirit now about to move in the fulfilling all prophecy, the earnest of which is vouch-saf'd to us in this so wonderful change, in pursuance of a discourse published twelve months past, viz, The command of God to come out of Babylon : wherein is more fully proved the [now] Roman Communion is intended and that the words of God will be fulfilled concerning the present state of the papacy in its expiration, and the hatred of the whore, 1697 / by Beverley.	Beverley, Thomas.	1689 (1689)	Wing B2160; ESTC R14224	25,830	31

it let them consider it is very dangerous to say of any Book of Scripture with the unlearned we cannot read it because we are not learned and with the learned we cannot read it because it is sealed If there were by the pouring out of the Spirit upon the Reformed an united endeavour to search by the Books of Scripture and other Ecclesiastical Records with Prayer what and what manner of Time the Holy Spirit in it did signifie as they have search'd for the Sense of Antiquity in some things of far less moment or concern to the Kingdom of Christ what doubt can there be but that the two leaved Gates of Truth in it had open'd to them and by their concerted Light and Authority Princes would be awaken'd and perswaded so that the great City and its Decimal power would soon feel the Earthquake and fall I am not at all in doubt but that to me less than the least of all Saints and the chiefest of Sinners as upon the Banks of Chebar Ulai and Hiddekel and as in the Isle of Patmos that Grace hath been vouchsaf'd upon my most Attentive Thought and Contemplation of this and other Prophesies of Scripture and upon the whole Scheme of Scripture Time that I have certainly found That at the year sixteen hundred ninety seven These great Things shall come to their Complement that are to be at even Dates with the Proclamation of the Kingdom of Christ That the Pollution of the Sanctuary shall be so far finish'd that the measur'd Temple and it's worshippers sealed up within eight the last twelve hundred sixty years shall be opened and a far more excellent Church-state Appear The Ministrations of Truth and Divine Worship much purer as the Ark of Testament seen and the Witnesses Shall have come out of their Sackcloth wherewith the so long Apostacy together with the Turkish Woe a Judgement upon that Apostacy hath cover'd them I have publish'd several Discourses to this purpose viz. A Scripture line of Time and Solomons Song adjusted to it and have found none who hath thought fit to remonstrate to them or resist the Evidence with which I have written not because I have written but because of what I have written I may say It is written It is written in the Scripture of Truth Particularly the annexed Discourse I publish'd a year ago and I cannot but look upon the present appearance of things in the World a Justification of it I have observ'd hitherto a very wonderful progress of Divine Government in the World according to the Calculation of Prophesie I have made I observe a great Preparation for the Cessation of the Turkish Woe upon the Imperial Constantinople and the Greek Cities that those Candlesticks may be Re-placed I observe yet This seems to wait for the Fall of the Tenth of the great City which motion it is to attend I have been always of the Judgment the Reformed Churches that lye in the Bowels of Nations whose Princes and Staple Laws had not established the Reformation were in Danger of fresh Martyrdoms by the cruel Policies of the Jesuites Order whose Arcana Imperii or Politics may well be styl'd the depths of Sathan I have understood those Churches symbol'd by the Church of Thyatira in regard of whom the Feet of Christ burn as in a Furnace to this day The Nations whose Princes and Laws have establish'd the Reformation I have had firm Assurance could not be re-enslav'd under the enchantment of Restoring that Power to the Beast which they had repeal'd from him nor should the Churches in them except by a short Hurricane be in any danger of force I have had the same Confidence with particular Relation to this Nation and the Churches in it and that the Soveraign Power of it shall be of the principal that shall perfect that Revolution of the Reformation into it's Complement and on that account have pray'd for the good understanding of our Supreams to that very end I have compar'd such Reformed Churches and particularly this to that of Sardis esteeming our greatest danger to be a Security a slumber in a State though splendid as to this World yet short of the Glory intended by Christ in the Advances of his Kingdom and that thereupon he would come upon us and we should not know at what hour he himself would come upon us I find no Reason to change or so much as to suspect but to be more and more confirm'd in these Sentiments I make no more doubt the present Conjuncture is a dawn of that great Revolution awaiting the Year ninety seven next ensuing than I doubt whether the dawn of the day be in advance to the perfect Light because I am not upon any single Conjecture but upon the whole Conspiration of Apocalyptical Times compar'd with the Registries of History in the course of Time since our Lords Resurrection as famous and as well known as the Reformation from Luthers Time is known I am not on any single Line of Time but upon the Concatenation of Times throughout Scripture not as it is perplex'd with the Irreconcileable Chronological Controversies but assur'd by Massy Sterlyn Scripture both by compare of the Texts themselves and Scripture Reason argued from them I have only three parts of that Line to publish viz. from Abraham to the going out of Egypt from the going out of Egypt to Solomons beginning the Temple and from the Temple begun to Cyrus his Decree for restoring it after the Babylonish Devastation I have also prepar'd so great a Probation that the day of Judgment and the Resurrection so generally acknowledg'd in Christian Doctrine are at the full dimensions of Exposition the very Milennial or thousand years Kingdom of Christ that I think upon the comparing of Scriptures I have vouch'd and argued it cannot be denyed and as a Complement of all I have adjusted to those Illustrious Scriptures the Prayer we so generally acknowledge by the Name of the Lords prayer in the Explanation of it and proved it to be the Prayer of and prepared for that Glorious Kingdom of Christ as also by eminent Scriptures the Lords Supper to be the Sacrament of the Kingdom I hope by the good Hand of God towards me to be so assisted as to make Publication of these with the great and confiding Expectation that since I have had so great cause to believe no one sees Reason to chastise the Discourses I have publish'd and that the Divine Administrations of these latter Times are going on to justifie them they will be serviceable as Go●ds to the enquiries of greater Masters of Assemblies and their every way ●ore acceptable Researches into these things to the greater hastning of the Glory and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and the fall of his Enemies to be his Footstool by the earnest Prayers of his Churches and Saints and that in the mean time they will be as Nails fastning those Tents and Pavilions of Princes who are to serve the King of

examin whether it be not a loud Alarm not only to this Nation but to the Christian World throughout That God hath to admiration open'd to the accomplishment of this great Prophesie And that it is so I shall affirm by Ten solemn Arguments But first by way of premisal I say if this be indeed a Proph●s●e a Divine Prophesie so soon to be accomplish'd and that the accomplishment be indeed set out in this wonderful change of affairs in our Nation it is then certain the consideration of the Proph●sie is more to the great purpose what we are to expect then the fairest Train of second Causes the Eyes and the Spirit of the Living Creatures in the Wheels in Ezekiels Vision c. 1. are much more to every end and purpose then the Rings of the Wheels how High Dreadful and August soever they are indeed more in view make more noise raise a greater dust but the Spirit does all All Princes States Councils Forces are to be valued and Honoured in their Places but Prophesie or the God of Prophesie raises them gives them each their Line of Action raises others when they are at the end of their Line takes hold and grasps it's end and is most assured of it All second Causes may fail your Fathers are dead and the Prophets where are they But did not my words by the Prophets take hold So it was in all Ages so it will be now The words of this Prophesie seem to lie still in the Sacred Book but God remembers them as his word and sends out his Spirit and stirs up the Spirits of Men according to them We ought not therefore to despise the searches of Prophesie For whoever can find the True Canale of them gives greater assurance of the Port and Haven of all motions then the wisest Conventions or most Potent Armies or fairest set of subordinate Instruments can do From this very Prophesie sprung out the great Action of this Year now in our Eves I shall therefore pursue this Argument keeping wholly within the P●ophetical Sphere touching no Civil concerns but as naked matter of Fact for the service of Prophesie Argument 1 I argue first That this great change of Affairs is the Divine Prologue to the accomplishment of this Prophesie from Christs Condemning both Teachers and People when they knew not the Signs of the Time. The Signs of the Times are not only Religious or Moral Characters as the Holiness of Christs Doctrine Life great Zeal in doing good was such a sort of Signs of the M●ssiah that could not be absent and Christ says in Relation to them And why of yo●●selves judge you not what is Right viz. from the Laws of Reason of Natural and Religious Conscience instead of a S●gn f●om Heaven but besides these there are the Signs of the Times the sure word of Prophesie gives as Daniels Seventy Weeks gave of Messi●h With these His Miraculous Birth early Wisdom at Twelve Years old great works concerted and these compar'd could not deceive concerning Messiahs's times then on Earth I presume to say I have found a Line of Time in Prophesie reaching to near as within about Eight Years of this great Prophesie fulfilled I gave it out a Year ago Here comes out a Providence before us so great so stupendious to the very purpose of this Prophesie the equal of which is hardly to be found in Story that was yet but an Embryo in the Womb of this Prophesie at that time I made the Line Public far off from all prospect no Cloud as Big as a Mans Hand to Divine by If now one may not if one cannot discern the Signs of the Times by such a Conjuncture of Prophesie and Providence I may humbly say why should any one be condemn'd of Hypocrisie for not discerning those Signs when on so great a Configuration one may be mistaken Then may it be said all Signs of the Times are Fugitive Fallacious and Incertain but they are not so therefore I am not mistaken event will justifie it at 97. as it hath so beyond conjecture already begun Argument 2 There is but one great Phenomenon one great appearance in Prophesie that seems to forbid this Interpretation of the present glor●ous Providence that is that just before viz. Three Years and a half before the fall of the great City Babylon in a Mystery this Roman Infamous Woman the Witnesses must be kill'd and by the Beast on which she Sits I have Anticipated this Objection by shewing it is impossible the Beast should have Forty Two Moons of Years and have that work to do at his Three last Years and a half nor does the Analogy of so great an event agree with so Pusil so small a time But the Three Days and a half are equal to the Three Times and a half and both to Twelve Hundred Sixty Days They are in the Habit of Three Days c. only to shew a deep time of the Sack-cloath Proph●sie in being kill'd as there was a deep time of our Lords Death in his not whole but part of Three Days as I am conscious I have abundantly made out But further I argue from this Providence This Church of England Comprehending as God does all his Servants holding the Testimony of Jesus whether what we style Establish'd by Law or Protestant D●ss●nters is a Land of Gods Witnesses if there be any such under Heaven if God hath then so rescued them from being in any sense kill'd by the Beast any more as he has it is certain that Prophesie of the Witnesses cannot be in the way of this Prophesie of the Ten Kings hating this Whore that it should not come to pass in it's just season of 1697. For God hath so Consolidated the Nation in this rescue that this Kingdom of the First Three among the Ten Kingdoms must be destroyed in all Human speaking e're it can be so subdued as to beare a killing of the Witnesses in it such as the Prophesie imports Indeed some resemblance there hath been of it in those severe Prosecutions of the Protestant Dissenters the guilt of which the Church of England hath I pray truely unloaded from it self upon Popish Cabals Besides Anti-christ hath poiz'd the weight of his Hand very notoriously upon the Church of England it self to try what it could do upon it But I doubt not at all the Bitterness of that Death of the Witnesses is past the differences being always great in my esteem betwixt the Church of Thyatyra Protestants lying in the midst of Popish Laws and Powers and betwixt those Churches whose Laws and Princes have given not only a Legality but Sardian splendor and security to the Reformation whose onely danger is too Deep a repose therein and slumber upon it Indeed I have been always much assur'd and God hath verified it Each Kingdom that repriz'd it self from the Power of the Beast shall be a Protestant Kingdom to the very last and that it could not have any Establish'd Prince that