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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27617	A memorial of the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ near approaching declaring according to prophecy, and advising upon the state of princes and nations, and of these nations in particular, what our Israel ought to do, in order to it, most humbly, and yet with the authority of sacred prophecy, presented to the King, and to the Queen, and to the high court of Parliament, and to all the judges of the nation / by T. Beverley ...	Beverley, Thomas.	1696 (1696)	Wing B2162; ESTC R37110	11,245	13

of the Morning Star to the Day of the Kingdom of Christ in Succession from whence I conclude Their Deliverance is very near and They shall Break their Papal Oppressors as with a Rod of Iron in their Last Works 3. Seeing there is an Extraordinary Concurrence of Gracious Signatures of God upon our present Soveraign There is Great Hope God will stir Him up to Appear at this Time in so Honourable a Service as Scripture styles it as of Helping the Lord against Those Mighties And if God be pleas'd to stir Him up He will undoubted●y Appear with Him For I am Bold in our God to say I shall not be mistaken in our King as to some Extraordinary Service God hath to do by Him the Time being so near although Mr. Mede of a most Honourable Memory for his Apocalyptic Key was in that ever Noble Gustavus Adolphus the time being then so much further off and that on these Great Reasons 1. That He is the Third Descendent of that Great Prince of Orange by whom God was pleas'd in the Vnited Provinces to propagate the Protestancy and to give that Curbe to the grasp of that Time after the Vniversal Monarchy And because He Fell a Martyr in it and Receiv'd no Recompence from the Bounty of God Equal after the General Estimate of Providence to that Service I doubt not God hath Reserv'd it for his Posterity and for the Prince that He hath Rais'd at this Time to be so Serviceable to the Protestant Religion and Inspir'd with so much Zeal and Courage for it 2. Our King as Prince of Orange but now under Greater styles is One of the Princes and Nobles of France that as the First Works of those Churches were principally by Princes and Nobles proceeding of Themselves In the same manner shall their Last Greater Works be done In which Regard our King Appears an Instrument fitted by God as a Prince and Noble proceeding from Themselves 3. God made England a Help and a Succour by Queen Elizabeth to those Afflicted Churches though still the Greatest Effects were from Themselves so It is to be both Hoped and Prayed that as their Refugees have by a Superior Providence working for them Found even in the Former Reign however of contrary Sentiments Sanctuary here So much more Vigorous and Potent shall their Assistances be under not only a Protestant Prince but of so Eminent Love to and Zeal for the Protestant Religion As Already there are Great Evidences of the Love Zeal and Forwardness of the Supreme Councel of the Nation and their Unanimity herein and Greatest Effects are Hop'd and Pray'd for from thence 4. That very Oracle The Last Works of the Church of Thyatyra shall be Greater then the First is to me an Account why the Confederate Armies have had so low effects of their Confederacy Because their Princes and Nobles of whom our King is one shall proceed of Themselves 5. Above All I persevere that within the Six next Summers viz. in 97. The Kingdom of Christ shall be in its Succession the Antichristian and Turkish Tyranny shall Fall and a Great Re-Reformation Ensue And now it These Things shall seem of value to so Soveraign an Authority and to be every way Revered most Honourable an Assembly Let it please them to take Care that Consideration may be had whether upon Just Grounds what is or hath been offer'd can be Refus'd viz. on due Debates according to Records of Scripture Chronology History Reason and Experience without any other Reflexions then what enter into the Merits of the Cause For I Take to Witness the Searcher of Hearts that as what I have now written is not in Flattery or Dissimulation so what I have formerly presented with Relation to the Church of England hath not been from any undervalue of the Personal Holiness and Learning of any of Eminency or Lowest Name therein for whom I have all possible Love and Honour but on both sides from most Assured Grounds in Prophecy That God will in an Extraordinary manner be present with the King if He calls Him to Greater Services for His own Approaching Kingdom as It is most Earnestly to be pray●d He may His Honour and His Safety being therein Complicated and that those in Highest Stations in the Church of England may know The State of it and their present manner of State in it hath but few Years more of duration and that the Great Senate of this Nation may by understanding the Times and the Signs of Them know what They ought to do a Revolution so Great indeed being so near as 97. My most Humble Petition therefore is That if to the most Dread Soveraigns and to the High Court of Parliament It shall not be made to Appear That what hath been publickly offer'd as a Table of Scripture Prophecy and its Calendar of Time is upon Foundations either Inconsistent with Themselves or Contradictory to Scripture Chronology History or Reason There may be an Eye Had in all Consultations and Actions thereunto as to the Testimony of Jesus and so to the Spirit of Prophecy Seeing It is most Agreeable to all Christian and Protestant Reason God should give to so Illustrious a Soveraign Power Senate and to so Great Protestant Nations some signs of so Great and so near an Approaching Time And that Your most Self Abased Minister of Jesus Christ in these Prophesies may be supported and enabled to Revise Perfect and Publish his whole Table and present it together to so Supreme Powers as a Volumn that will within Six next ensuing Summers Justifie it self and further our Accounts at the Kingdom and Appearing of our Infinitely Paramount Lord Jesus Christ. And if This Petition Receive Favour let also the Councel of so Humble a Minister of and according to the Prophesies of Jesus Christ be Accepted to so Great Estates In which I Appeal to God I most Humbly and Earnestly pray I may speak as and only as the Oracles of God in these Four Moments of Advice from Prophecy Advice 1. That the Arms of the Protestant Refugees of France of the Vaudois of Protestants in general be more valued and under God more Relyed upon then mixed Confederacies with Kingdoms and States that yet Give their Power to the Roman Beast Give leave therefore to Weigh in the Ballance of the Sanctuary each part First shewing the disadvantages to be Feared in mixed Confederacies in Two Things 1. It ought to be well pondered that at this very Time All Princes and States who yet Give their Kingdom to the Beast are therein as yet in a State of War with the Lamb that is with Jesus Christ now about to Reprize wholly and perfectly his Kingdom from that Antichrist Now seeing the Main Cause of Dispute at this Time betwixt this Nation and France is a Protestant Government and indeed the Protestant Religion in general in the World Whether the Lamb will Accept the Service of Them who are in Actual War is much to be doubted

Essays of Popery to Re-Invade it and the universal Zeal of the Nation to Stemm that Tyde that was offering to Flow in was a most undoubted Impression from Heaven upon so many that have too little Sense of the Power of that profession upon Them to be otherwise mov'd And if It should seem to be any Objection that the Church of England lay so long suppress'd as from 42 to 60. I have no desire to say it but Truth obliges me to say that even that Judgment upon it was for its so Voluntary Returns to more in the Synagogue of Sathan under the pretence of Antiquity then could be Allowed by its very own Standard of Reformation and as a Sample of the perfect Removal of that its very Standard as not Seal'd in the Sanctuary nor of Ezekiel's Just Temple-Weights Measures and so to be by the great Re-Reformation Broken 3. Those Suffering Reformed Churches have but Time before the Full Rising of the Witnesses to do their Last Greater Works then their First and to see the Dawns of the Morning Star in their Vindication from and Victory over their Oppressors Adv. 3. Let it please so great Princes and Councels to set before Them the Late Doings of God by the Turkish again prevailing Force and judge whether It does not as in a Mirrour shew such a Lengthning out of that Woe on the so called Christian World while the Idolatrous Worship of Wood and Stone the Thefts the Sorceries and Fornications of the Romish Communion still continue And that this very Thing might be and hath been predicted according to Prophecy and therefore of how great Moment Judgment according to Prophecy is even beyond Victory it self It being predicted in the midst of Imperial Victories And therefore the whole Council of God as to the Powers of these Nations cannot be declar'd by Preaching without Research of Prophecy especially Concerning the Kingdom of Christ and continual regard had to it Let the Reason or Rethorick of Such discourses be otherwise never so Great Adv. 4. Let it please the King and the Queen and the Nobles and the Commons in Parliament Assembled that the most Powerful Scripture-way of Preaching and Prayer may have All Advantages of Encouragement given to spread abroad in Cities Towns and Countreys and most Eminently in Camps and Navies that the Spirit of Debauchery Prophaness and Atheisticness that is so Prodigiously abroad may be quench'd And that Choice of Persons who are to Adventure their Lives may be made so far as is possible of such who have a Knowledge of that Excellent Cause Protestancy for which They so adventure For though with very Un-Reform'd Protestants as once He said with Wounded Men God hath and will still work for his Names sake for a while Yet nearer the Kingdom of Christ He will not endure such Persons Let us therefore prepare a High way for our God and make His Paths streight And They who thus Honour God He will honour but They who despise him shall be Lightly esteemed Let us not therefore to Conclude Hope their Hope not Fear their Fear who measure All safety and Success by a Confederacy tho' mixed on one side and Slavishly Fear a Papal Confederacy on the other But let us Sanctifie the Lord of Hosts Himself with an Emphasis as we are commanded and let Him be our Fear and our Dread Isa 8.13 Let us know God Alarms the King and these Nations to serve Him in France And it is to he hop'd and pray●d rather then that we should not He will necessitate us For if we do not it is most certain the Government will Fall into Dishonour first and then into Confusion Lastly into Ruin Now if These Things be despised disbelieved or Ridicul'd It is but what Reception Prophecy however Administred hath always Found in the World But it cannot be Judged by Mans day I count therefore nothing dear to Fulfill this Ministery and I shall always Rejoyce in its Acceptance so as may abound to the Account of the Accepters Especialiy in Yours to me Most Awful Supreme Powers For whom I dayly bow my Knees as a Minister of Jesus Christ to so great Principalities Ministring to you the Divine Prophesies and that Your not to say mine Offering up Your selves according to them may be a Sacrifice Acceptable to God being Sanctified by the Holy Ghost FINIS