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A27590 The command of God to his people to come out of Babylon, Revel. 18. 4, demonstrated to mean the coming out of the present papal Rome with a most earnest perswasive to all to come out who are in it, ... Beverley, Thomas. 1688 (1688) Wing B2132; ESTC R18831 42,746 48

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THE COMMAND OF God to his People TO COME OUT OF BABYLON Revel 18. 4. DEMONSTRATED To mean the Coming out of the Present PAPAL ROME With a most Earnest Perswasive to All to Come out who are in it and a Dissuasive from looking back if come out or Entertaining any Alliance with That Communion And herewith a Calculation of the Time the Papacy can according to this Prophecy Continue is given On Solemn Proof notwithstanding the known Variety and Contrariety of Judgments and former Mis-Computations It can survive but Nine or Ten Years in its Present State. Printed in the Year 1688. To the Reader THe People of this Nation professing the Protestant Religion are in danger to be surrounded with all Methods of Insinuation and Seduction to entertain the Popish Leaven which how little soever it appears in Bulk and how small a Proportion soever in number of Persons compared with Protestants it is rated at it yet undoubtedly hopes to Leaven the whole Lump of the Nation claiming to it self the Privilege of the truly Catholic Christianity to which it can no more than pretend The Romanists do not only seem to themselves to be but likewise glory as being on the higher ground tho' infinitely as it may be in general Expression said inferiour to the Protestants in Arguments of Scripture Reason and Antiquity Yet while they offer Argument for Argument Objection for Objection Answer for Answer All Men and at all times are not so wise to see know and be firmly perswaded for Truth against Errors especially when Deceptions are flank'd with hopes of advantage on one side and fears of disadvantage on the other which the Supreme Prince hath in His hand to distribute on each side At the best the Controversie seems to depend and to be like to depend while the World stands as thus menag'd but if indeed the Word of God having plainly foreseen the state of things and the Roman Obstinacy and Impenitence to the last hath given the Pourtracture of Romanism in its full Proportion so that it may be known and understood of all who will apply their Minds to the Consideration This cuts off all further Dispute and all its specious Pretences and seeming Arguments and the Vails thrown over its Superstition Idolatry and Blood are thin Lawns under which may be seen plainly the City and the Beast described in the Revelation Now no Arguments against it can be like this nor sooner make an end of the Controversie nor more secure Persons from being tempted to revert to that Vomit the Nation hath cast out nor more effectually perswade out of that Congregation and Assembly those who are now in the midst of it altho it seems to Fare much with the Generality of them as with those of whom Solomon speaks who falling into a deep Ditch as abhorred of God They seldom return again and take hold of the ways of Life for such Guests are in the Depths of Hell. And because it concerns them who are the Votaries of that Religion to wipe off this great Blot that Prophecy I make no doubt to say I have demonstrated hath laid upon them And because too many Protestants are not willing to think so severely of them as this Prophecy Imports nor to judge the way of Prophecy proper to deal with them and because particularly One of a publick Ecclesiastic Character seems to take upon himself us an Umpire between Protestancy and Popery and like the Days-man in Job lays his hand on both I therefore desire any of those persons laying aside Passion in which soever of these Classes to make void what I call Demonstration and to render my Speech nothing worth For I would only surprize in the first place this one Objection viz. That the Greek Churches and the whole Train of Churches that follow them are either omitted by Prophecy or must be condemned as under the Apostasie with the Romanists although they have denyed and do deny the Roman Supremacy Infallibility and come not up at least to their Transubstantiation and its Idolatry But it is most Evident Prophecy hath not omitted them nor does yet charge them so deep in the Apostasie as the Roman Church though it does severely Censure them of too sad a Part in it It does not omit them For the Two Wings of the Great Eagle that bear the Church into the Wilderness the very Expression of the Apostasie though Including the mysterious Providence of God in things also do so plainly Import the Eastern and Western Empire that they define For all these things see the Line of Time. the Time of the Apostacy beginning within the space after Theodosius the Great and Augustulus For at no other time had that Empire its Two Wings so distinct as from his Death to the Cessation of the Western Empire It also Represents the Eastern and Western Apostatizing Hierarchies by the Two Horns of the Other Beast that spake like a Dragon though Horn'd as a Lamb that joyn'd in making the Image to the Grand Roman Beast and to Cause it to Speak and to Cause c. Revel 13. All which was notably fulfilled in the Grecian Affectation of Universality by John the Patriarch of Constantinople laying the Foundation of that Tyrannous Title which Phocas the Grecian Emperour soon after decreed to Rome and its Bishop and the Grecian Counsel of Nice together with the Bishops of the West establishing Image Worship is much more Notorious An. 787. On All which the Judgment of God in the Two Mahometan Woes of the Saracens and of the Turks fell so heavy on them That under the Ignorance Barbarity Superstition Poverty and the total Destruction of the Grecian Empire by the Mahometans Those Churches and All Dependent on them lye at this Day though not so deep in the Apostasie as the Romanists expecting the Resurrection of the Witnesses So many as are truly the Church of Christ and then the passing away of that Turkish Woe For the last of those Woes still keeps them down And only those who shall after that continue Impenitent will be in danger of Rome's last Judgment All which are sufficient Notices of Prophecy concerning them and of their Elevation in the Apostasie not of Rome's Degrees This Objection then Fore-clos'd let Him that can make void what I have said concerning Rome For that this Prophecy of the Revelation is a Book of Sense no one that looks into it and hath Sense himself can deny any more than that Euclid's Propositions are so though not understood by the most And I doubt not the generality of Hands into which this Discourse may fall believe it to be Divine But many believe also That the Divine Author did not design to be understood at least till some other state of Times I do acknowledge it hath in his wise Disposal lay much hid from Ages and Generations but that he hath given Leave Encouragement and Assistance to the understanding it I will use in this place no other Argument