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A39885	God's goodness to this Israel in all ages being the substance of some sermons on Psalm LXXIII, I/ by J.F., minister of the gospel.	J. F. (James Forbs), 1629?-1712.	1700 (1700)	Wing F1443; ESTC R32028	51,365	93

and absurdities that follow upon contrary opinions which do assert that it 's now a fulfilling or the futurition of it as a thing yet to come make me to conclude that it is past From what has been already said in opening the Chap. it 's clear That it is not now a fulfilling 1. This time cannot be exactly towards the end of the one thousand two hundred and threescore Days and forty two Months and if it be When did they begin 2. Antichrist is not now at the highest nor the Church at the lowest 3. We cannot be said to be the Street of the great City nor our times times of Popery 4. We are not the first that laid the measuring-line to Antichrist's Temples Altar and Worshippers 5. This savours of Spiritual Pride and can hardly be asserted without reflecting upon the glorious Martyrs that have gone before us as if they had not deserved the Names of Witnesses in respect of us whereas indeed neither we nor our sufferings are worthy once to be named in way of comparison with them and their sufferings Some do fondly fancy that nothing is to be witnessed to but some one Notion of their own 6. This would argue ingratitude and murmuring as if we were still in the Wilderness when indeed we have rather cause to bless God saying We bless thee Lord God Almighty because thou hast taken to thee thy great Power and hast reigned The absurdities that follow upon asserting that this is yet to come and that the foresaid Days and Months did begin with six hundred and six are these 1. By adding one thousand two hundred and threescore to six hundred and six will be one thousand eight hundred and sixty six about two hundred Years hence 2. This may breed security in this present Age. 3. For two hundred Years Antichrist must still be a increasing to a greater height than ever 4. Either all the glorious late Transactions throughout the World have had no tendency to the prophesied ruin of Antichrist or if they had all that has been done must be undone again and all the Nations that have cast off the Popes supremacy must Apostatize and become worse than before Is it probable that God has brought so many out of Aegypt to bring them back again No verily 5. If it be determined of God that Antichrist's forty two Months shall not expire nor his prophesied Reign begin till then then it will be but in vain to attempt any thing against him all this while And this is the second ground proving the preterition of this Prophecy There is but one more to wit the harmony and concurrence of providential Events Which this prophecy understanding it according to the interpretation given makes me conclude it is over add 1260 to 300 and the number that results thence is 1560. Now let us inquire a little what state the Church was towards the concluding period of this time or near thereupon Anno 1546 in the War between the Emperor and Duke of Saxony the Protestants were almost totally routed the Prince himself imprisoned Magistrates divested of their Robes many Ministers banished and imprisoned for not taking the Interm the Antichristian party insult exceedingly in sending great Guns and Prisoners which they had taken as Trophies of an absolute Victory over Lutheranism About the same time there was a great persecution in France in the Netherlands under the Duke of Alva of the Waldenses in Provence Anno 1545. They of Piedmont by the Duke of Savoy It is not unknown what was here in Queen Mary's days It is observed by some that within a few of these Years the number of them that suffered for Christ were 900000 and this may relate to the slaying of the Witnesses and as for the Resurrection about 1559 the Work of Reformation had a great reviving in German At a Diet of the Empire at Ausburg by publick Authority the Protestants had free liberty to make Profession of their Religion without prejudice to their Estates and civil Privileges about the same time Reformation had a reviving in Scotland In France under Charles the 9th Anno 1560. Queen Mary Reigned about 1554 and died some five Years after and Queen Elizabeth brought glorious days to Protestantism in general in respect of the Marian days Besides all these Arguments my own observation of the Acts of Providence at this day do more and more confirm me in this perswasion however if any can shew me more convincing Reasons to the contary I hope through Grace I shall not be found pertinacious I cannot slightly pass over so material a point as this is without drawing some practical Inferences from it by way of Application 1st For Instruction 1. The longest Day that ever was had an end Antichrist's forty two Months have their period 2. When Persecutors are at the highest then their Downfal draws nigh Nihil violentum durabile 3. O that all the Sons of Wickedness would be wise and instructed from what has befallen others to tremble and fear God because of his Judgments 4. Christ's Witnesses do carry on his Work by their Sufferings as well as Services Passive Obedience is as acceptable to God and useful to others as Active 5. No Cause of Christ sealed with a bloody Testimony shall ever be quite lost 6. The Reformed Churches that have in any measure cast off the Yoak of Antichristianism are highly to be esteem'd of tho' it was never intended of God that Reformation shold stand at what it did begin either in Doctrine Worship or Discipline yet the state of the Primitive Reformers was a Heaven upon Earth in comparison of what their Prececessors state was More particularly from these things we may venture to make some sober conjecture concerning the Dispensation this Age is under 1. If this Prophecy of the Witnesses be fulfilled about an hundred Years ago then we are now under the 7th Trumpet which contemporizeth with their Resurrection or does at least follow immediately upon it 2. The Work of Reformation is not to begin the Right-hand of the most High has already laid the Foundation 3. Antichrist has been already at the highest and is now a going down the Wind all the endeavours of Men and Devils shall not be able to raise him again to what once he was nor to support or keep him from falling tho' this and two or three Nations more should Apostatize to Popery more than ever yet it 's nothing contrary to my assertion unless Bohemia Switzerland Helvetia Hungary Holland and all in Germany France Sweden and other parts do professedly return to Rome again and become more Idolatrous than before which shall never be 4. We shall never know such another slaying of Witnesses as this 1. Those were in the Wilderness the suffering Witnesses of after Ages shall be out of the Wilderness 2. They were then in Sackcloth after Ages shall never know such a mournful Condition 3. They suffered before the Temple of God was opened in Heaven which