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A27608 The good hope through grace the jubilee of the kingdom of Christ shall come upon the counterfeit jubilee of Rome, and before the end of the following year 1700, shall begin to bring under desolation that great city and its papacy : therein uniting the year 1697 with 1700 according to prophecy / humbly presented to the faith and prayers of all sincere Protestants by T. Beverley. Beverley, Thomas. 1700 (1700) Wing B2150; ESTC R37108 45,862 81

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Generally Count 98 but in the Prophetic Calendar 97 Just Ending I therefore as before so now again give the Account from 97 and to Ninety Eight in the same Prophetic Style one Year To 99 is Two Years To 1700 still in the same Prophetic Style is Three Years viz. at each Autumnal Equinox and at the Vernal Equinox of 1700 ending in Vulgar Account but in Prophetical the Half of 1700. The Last Half Year of the Three Years and a Half will Expire then in the very Middle of the Year at the Vernal Equinox The Time of our Lords Resurrection Illustrious I Humbly hope with mighty Effects of it in the Rising again of the Glory of the Gospel the Witnesses and all the People of Christ so long lying Dead in the Breadth of Babylon and its Antichristian Papacy then beginning to be Judg'd I have now with all Humble Reverence of the Divine Oracles Covering as it were my Face whatever of Light and Under●●anding God hath given me as yet not Able to behold their Glory And my Feet in the sense of my Unworthyness and Great Darkness and Imperfections in Knowing or Prophecying I have yet with Reverence and Godly Fear shewn That there is a Frame of Prophecy Curiously and wonderfully made By which Insensibly however certainly foreknown to God which way every Thing would come to pass the Great Events should with such an Equal Ballance be made Inclinable to 97 or 1700 That Providence should with the Truth of Prophecy as it saw Fitt Determine upon either at the very Time I come therefore to the Fourth Head propos'd Viz. To consider the Reasons of the Translation of the Great Events to have been Expected at 97 from thence to 1700. Head 4th The Translation of the Great Effects of Prophecy The Accomplishing to Scatter the Power of the Holy People the Rising of the Witnesses and the beginning to Finish Wonders have been Translated from 97 and are Humbly to be expected e're the End of 1700 on this Threefold Account 1. Principally and in the First place by way of Infraction or what Scripture is pleased to call Gods Breach of Promise or Repenting of the Good he said He would Benefit his People with at such a Time Jreme 18 10. We know in strict sense The Faithful God who notwithstanding our Vnbelief cannot deny himself cannot Break promise nor can any of his Predictions Fail Yet he knows how so to order Things that the Sin of his Servants should be under such an Ordination of Providence as if both Promises and Prophecyes did fail for the Punishment of their Unbeleif and Disobedience and Unsuitable Frame I have Reason therefore more to bewail the Disagreeable Frame of my own and other the Hearts of those who are called Protestants and the Reformed in not being more Ready for those Great Effects at the Time then the being mistaken i● the Explanation of Pr ophecy and the Prophetic Numbers or even the Determination upon Ninety Seven For it is most Evident God hath Reserved to himself a Prerogative of Pronouncing Evil very possitively as in the Case of Nineveh Jonah 3d. Yet Fourty Days and Nineveh shall be destroyed And yet God seeing their Turning from their Evil ways also Repented of the Evil that he thought to do unto them So on the other side he makes a seeming Breach of Promise in Delay of the Good he intended at such a Time And yet as I have before Argued in Nathan So it is plain no Blame could lie on Jonah for the mistake of Time but for his too high Resentment of the Dishonour as he Apprehended on himself of being Accounted a False Prophet However God Justified him not long after by the Irrepealable Prophecy of Ninevehs utter Destruction by Zephaniah The Delay or Translation of the Great Effects of Vision from 97 to 1700 I Impute therefore in the First place to Infraction or Gods Breach of Promise with Great Assurance and Boldness of Speech as to the manner of Expression Because God hath been pleas'd to use it else I should not have Dared make use of it and then as to the Thing it self I am Bold because I Find so Great Reasons for 97 as the most Central Time of Prophecy and such Fair Delineations and so Curious a Hand of Prophecy Reserving a Liberty and Freedom of so Uniting 1700 within it as Providential Righteousness and Justice by way of Infraction or Abruption Or Wisdom in a way of Mercy and Glorious Illustration of Vengeance on the Enemies of the People of God saw Fit To give therefore a more full Account of Infraction or Breach of Promise I would offer my Apprehension with all Humility and Modesty and yet with Uprightness and Sincerity I say therefore God had by the Prophecys of his word Pointed to 97 as the Ending of the Sackcloth of the Witness Prophecy in their Prophecy Fulfil'd in the Kingdom of Christ and of other the Great Effects but with a Conditional Reserve if there were a Suitable Frame in the Witnesses both the Sufferers and the more self-Subsistent Protestancy under Reformed Princes Nations and their Laws I say If there were a Frame and Activity Suitable to so Great a Revolution Such a Frame as Agrees with the Spirit of Life from God with their standing on their Feet with their Appearing with the Lamb on Mount Zion having the Fathers Name written on their Foreheads But there was not such a Frame among Protestants of any Distinction or Denomlnation of any Title Order or Degree Hereupon Rises the Lords Breach of Promise For in the Room of such a Spirit of Life the Sardian State lies heavy upon the whole They have a Name to Live and yet are Dead They do not Fill up the Things that Remain and are in order to the Kingdom of Christ They are in a very Sleepy and Vnwatchful Temper as to the coming of Christ so that it is like to come upon them at an Hour they know not When the Lord saw this it displeased Him then said He they shall know my Breach of Promise What I had Determin'd at 97 shall be as a Further Delay If they had been in a Condition to have Smitten as often as they would with a high Impulse of Will the Antichristian Earth with Plagues to have Shot with all the Arrows of the Lord's Deliverance their Accomplishment to Scatter should have immediately commenc'd with Finishing of Wonders But even the Suffering Part of Protestants and much more the Generality being found in the Condition before describ'd without any Reflection on the Protestant Princes It looks as if in David's Numbering the People the Lord was Displeased and left him under Effectual Motives so to Number which brought a Plague on All So God Provoked Justly with the Universal Declination of the Reformation from His Truth and the Purity of His Worship and the Holiness of His Ways withdrew that Spirit of Zeal Courage and Resolution in the Cause and Interest of God His Gospel