Catholick Christian Confession to wit the Holy Scripture and at the same time make one Universal Christian Confession full of the everlasting Gospel out of the Augustan Basil Suevian both the Switzerland Saxon Witteberg French English and last Bohemian Confession and then burn all but it together with all their voluminous Commentaries 119. What was said concerning Confessions the same is to be understood of Catechisms out of all which with the assistance of Divine Light let one Universal Christian Institution be compiled for the Instruction of Youth which by its evident Truth may be able to recommend it self to all Christians not by force and violence which hath been the fruitful Womb of Antichristianisme 120. Collect also Bodies or Systems of the Doctrine of the Reformed Church as for Example out of all the Writings of the Wiclef-Waldenses select and make up one Body of the Doctrines of the Reformed Church in its Infancy out of all the Writings of the Hussites a Body of the Reformed Child-hood out of the Zuinglian Writings a Body of the Adolescence or Reformed Stripling Age out of the Lutheran a Body of the Reformed Young-manly Age out of the Writings of the Calvinists a Body of the Reformed Manhood and out of the Writings of the Prophets Wise-men and Scripture-learned a Body of the Reformed Old Age that so a perfect Concord and Harmony may be established and all Mistakes and Errors utterly cast away 121. This is the sum of my intention as to those Systems or Bodies I mentioned in my Forerunner neither have I writ or said any thing though it may have surpassed your belief which I could not really effect by the Grace of God and am most willing my most dear Brethren to communicate all these things and such like more to you which are of force enough to transmute all the Lead of your Babel into pure Gold if you will but heartily set upon the Work of Reformation It was for this I was born and called before I was born that I might change Babylon into Gold without the use of any material Sword whether of Steel or of Lead and the strength of my Enemies falling upon me in vain shall fall by their own strength the Lord of Hosts fighting for me you your selves being Witnesses 122. But in the first place restore One onely Scripture as well in its Text as Interpretation and as soon as ever you have restored the Scripture with one consent burn all your Modern Bibles which are the Instruments of Sectarian Confusion abounding with many Additions Emendations Explications Divisions Disjoyntings and Changes of Humane Reason 123. For my chiefest Design is to restore the Scripture with the assistance of Divine Light in order to an universal Conversion and to expose the same not only to the censure of you my Lutherans and Reformed but also to that of all People Nations and Languages of the Four Corners of the Earth to the end that one God may be known in one Scripture under one Sun 124. The very Letter of Scripture hath been very much blurr'd by Jews as well as Christians upon several accounts but if this have hapned in the Text much more in the Interpretations which do so vary from the Text and from one another that I have scarce had freedoom to alledge the Text of Scripture in the former part of this Epistle when I considered the many Errors in the various Readings and Interpretations occasioned by the neglect of Writers and Printers 125. If I had the outward Letter of the Scripture in its genuine truth and purity I should easily with the outward Letter have conquered all Sectaries the inward Spirit of the Scriptures being opened to me and therefore I can no longer bear these dark evasions of a corrupted Text but shall retrieve the Scripture as to the truth of the Letter by the help and assistance of the Dictator himself which I am in an assured expectation I shall accomplish in the view of the whole World 126 And to this end in the strength of God I shall cast away all humane Additions whatsoever as those of Contents Divisions of Chapters and Verses and much more all Additions to the Text it self and in so doing shall discover the Faults of the Original Scripture amongst the Jews as well as Christians which are all stained with these blots and much more the errors which are in the Interpreted Scriptures of all People Nations and Languages 127. I shall restore the Text it self both Hebrew and Greek not by mine own knowledge but by the Grace of God alone and at the same time shall expose to view an Instance of a true Translation in the Laâ—ine German and Arabick Tongues for a pattern to all other People Nations and Languages that so our Universal work may come to be of universal use and service as being designed onely for the glorifying of Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews in every People Nation and Language 128. The last Five Volumes of this Universal Work shall present the Twenty four Books of the bare Text of Scripture according to the number of the Elders in the Revelation dress'd up in a comely Garb to the Eyes of the World and compleat if it please God the number 77. of our Universal Writings with respect to the 77. Persons of Lucifer's restored Throne in which Writings both Scriptures shall by way of Paraphrase be explained according to the Three Principles severally and conjoyn'd 129. The intended Paraphrase of the Scripture beginning from the Fall of the Angels and thence proceeding to the Creation of this World shall open all the Arcana Secrets and Mysteries of Scripture which are necessary for the present Age and shall beyond the belief of men of this Age unfold the whole Work of the Redemption of Mankind from Adam through all the Patriarchs Prophets and Kings unto Christ himself and from Christ through all the Apostles and their Successors unto the Thousand years of Paradise to the end that all People Nations and Languages will they nill they may acknowledge and own Jesus Christ to be the true Son of God and the Saviour of the World Moreover in this Paraphrase the true Chronology which hitherto hath been lost shall be restored to the World and all the Mysteries of Numbers past present and to come unvailed but above all herein as in a clear Looking-glass the Great Whore of Babylon shall be exposed naked to the view of all to the end that all Prophecies may be fulfilled 130. The Scripture being opened according to the First Principle of the seven Arts to the Mystical Posterity of Japhet shall discover the true and solid Principles of all Arts consonant to whole Nature in so many thousand Aphorisms as shall exceed those of all Academical Writings put together in Number but much more in Worth and Value as being true refined Gold in comparison of the others Lead which discovery will promote the ruine of the present Universities and make way for
the Wrath of God to be a Scourge to the Roman Antichrist and if you view the Roman Idolatry with their Saints and Saintesses you 'll find that the Mahometans are justifiable not in respect of their own Law but in regard of the Scandal they received from Rome for which reason also the Execution of the Sixth Judgment which is to pass upon Universal Rome is committed by God to Mahometans 146. Wherefore take heed of those three frogs before explained in the Sixth Vial who by their contrary Opinion will be generally very pleasing to Sectarians in maintaining that the Ruin of Mahometans is at the door Take heed ye do not vainly perswade your selves that the Mahometan Empire will have its period with the expiring of the Dominion of the Watry Trigon about the year of Christ 1782 because the said Empire had its first rise under the same for Supernatural Prophecy doth assure us that the Sword of the Mouth not a bloody one shall destroy the Mahometan Destroyers of European Rome 147. A hard Message this is but yet a very true one nor to be feared by any of my Fellow-brethren that follow the words of God! For our God hath pointed out a Pella for his own to retire to in the North and in the East in those words which he spoke to Christina Poniatovia when she was a Figure of this our Sojourning saying Behold I will scatter my People amongst the Nations and I will send them into a strange Land I will lead them out before the storm of my swift Wrath break forth that they may be preserved when I shall rain down Fire and Brimstone Wherefore as thou didst flee so shall they many with trembling not knowing whither to turn themselves but I will shew them their way neither will I take my Mercy from them And I will give unto them their Spiritual Bread in abundance even my Holy Word that with it they may more freely quietly and undisturbedly feed and satisfie their Souls I will moreover add thereunto the Bread of the Body and all necessaries of Life neither will I be wanting to them in any thing so they do but confide in me and take me for their Refuge For my Name is a most strong Tower if the Righteous flee to me he shall be saved in the evil day 148. This our God fulfilled to the Bohemians and Moravians who to praefigure our Dispersion were driven into Exile by the most Antichristian Wickedness of Ferdinand the Second 149. And our Heavenly Father doth yet daily fulfil it in us who in a Figure live amongst the Nations being led forth and daily more to be led forth into a strange Land and the words before alledged will put you upon great thoughts who do not understand that this our leading forth will be before the breaking forth of the storm of the swift Wrath of the Lord. 150. Will you yet continue to call them Fools whom God hath adorned with his threefold Crown of Wisdom Will you proceed to afflict your Fellow-brethren with your Corporal and Spiritual Imprisonments whom God will deliver from your Eternal Captivity Alas open your Eyes open them I say what ye have done to your Fellow-Brethren ye have done to your selves Temporally if you be converted but Eternally if ye be damned 151. O Waldenses Hussites Zuinglians Lutherans and Calvinists who are now divided by your Sectarian Names but I hope ere long will be CHRISTIANS with me acknowledge your New Babel to be of the same Colour with Old Papal Babylon being overcome by so potent a Conviction For indeed ye are not able with any Arguments whatsoever to overthrow this Application of the Revelation because you cannot apply it any other way in such Harmony 152. Ye Lutherans have proclaimed Luther to be the Angel of the Eternal Gospel and have slain your selves with your own Sword because there are Seven Angels mentioned corresponding with the Angels of the Seven Vials who was then the first of these who the Second who the Third and so forth and which of them was Luther Answer me but I know you 'll be silent 153. John speaks thus concerning the Fourth Angel answering to Luther And I saw and behold a White Cloud and upon the Cloud one sitting like to the Son of Man having upon his Head a Golden Crown and in his Hand a sharp Sickle 154. To whom I pray can this be applied in Luthers time The Devil indeed in Luthers time exerted his strongest endeavours to overthrow the Kingdom of Christ in the Anababtist Kingdom at Munster neither was it without a cause that he mingled these Tares amongst the good Wheat of the Kingdom of Christ that the Angels of the External and Eternal Literal and Spiritual Gospel might not joyn their force together 155. Where there is Wheat there commonly also are Tares where there are true Prophets there also are false Prophets which the whole tenor of the Scripture declares for it is most certain that in the same Age in which Writers give us an account of the rise of so many Diabolical Inspirations Revelations and Ecstasies there were also Divine Inspirations Revelations and true Ecstasies 156. And therefore they were not all Arch-Hereticks who are so commonly accounted but rather Promoters of the Eternal Gospel under their proper Angel and Fore-runners of the Paradisick Reign of Christ all which being armed with Divine Assistance I shall publickly examine in the sight of the World the Devil in vain raging against it 157. Neither shall those execrable Heresies which are almost by a general consent adscrib'd to David George deter me from an undaunted Defence of his Innocence since those things which are brought in against him by Hornius and others though seemingly proved by his own Writings have no more truth in them than had the Pharisees Testimony against Christ about his re-building the Temple in three days 158. That place of the Revelation hath most truly been fulfilled in the Restorers of the Everlasting Gospel where it is said And none could learn the song save onely the Hundred forty four thousand who were bought from the Earth and will yet daily be fulfilled more and more 159. The Everlasting Gospel is nothing else but the Everlasting knowledge of the whole Gospel which never was the same it is now nor never will be the same it hath been and in this one line you have the whole foundation of the Everlasting Gospel which none under the outward Letter of the Seven Vials hath doth or will be able to understand without the teaching of the holy Ghost who is the Dictator of the Everlasting Gospel neither will it be fully known to all until the Seven Plagues of the Seven Angels be finished 160. As great a difference as there is between the outward Letter of Scripture and the Spirit of the Letter so great is the difference between the Reformers of the outward and the Reformers of the inward Papacy as to their knowledge of Scripture 161.
and Tenets full of Prejudice and Opposition against the Divine Light and instead of correcting corrupting the Interpretation of the Holy Scriptures by adding to them without the Dictate of the Holy Spirit yet was it for all this in some respect worthy of the fifth Vial. 57. My Brethren of the Reformation ye have had an Humane National Synod O that ye might shortly have a General and Divine Council which must needs be wherein not onely you and the Lutherans may be fully united having first laid aside whatsoever is amiss in either of you but also a door may be opened for the Turks Persians and Tartars to enter into Christendom O Israel and Juda How have you rent our selves from one another and continue yet to rend your selveâ— daily 58. Ye Lutherans of whom I am born ye I say are Israelites and the Reformed whom ye have rejected are the Tribe of Juda God himself whom ye cannot resist affirming it Hear therefore O Israel and Juda the worâ— of the Lord whom ye have forsaken How long will you build up a Verbal Christendom and destroy and pull down that which is Real How long will ye despise the Prophets sent to you by God himself Have ye not yet long enough doated upon the Whore of Babylon Or are ye resolved to perish with her One Sect after another grows up amongst you and are all ready to devour you and the sixth Judgement threatens not onely the Pope of Rome but the Wolves and Bears also who have been his Devourers How long being blinded will you draw down upon your selves the Sixth Vial part of which is already poured forth as a fore-boding Sign and Figure of what is to follow The 1st Year The 1st Month. The 1st Four Weeks The 1st Twenty eight Days 59. For the sixth Angel poured forth through the fore-runners of the most High the Prophets Wise-men and Scripture-learned his Vial by declaring that the Ruin of the Dragon Leopard-Bear and Lamb-Dragon is come in this sixth Judgment and that the Eastern Monarch who is to execute the same shall be converted and that the lost Tribes of the Jews shall to the great Commotion of the whole World of a sudden appear and assist at the fore-said Execution Vpon the great River Euphrates of the Asiatick as well as European Babylon The 2d Year The 2d Month. The 2d Four Weeks The 2d Twenty eight Weeks 60. And its Water was dried up by a daily clearer understanding and fulfilling of Prophecies whereupon many leaving the Papal and Sectarian Babylon did return to the one true Christendom owning no other Name but that of Christians joyning themselves unanimously according to their different States to one of the three Armies of God viz. either to that with the Steel or to that with the Golden or to that with the Leaden Sword That the way of the Kings from the East might be prepared especially the Kings of Natolia the lesser Asia which are the Turks and next of the Persians Tartars and Jews which in another respect will be further fulfilled under the Seventh Vial after the Sixth is past The 3d. Year The 3d. Month. The 3d. Four Weeks The 3d. Twenty eight Days 61. And I saw come out of the mouth of the Dragon of the Roman-Germ in Empire which from Augustus Caesar borrowed the Name of Augustus as well as that of Dragon for the Latins tell us that his Mother Attâ—a conceived him by lying with a Dragon And out of the Mouth of the Beast of the Roman Papal Kingdom long since receiving his Power from the Imperial Dragon and out of the Mouth of the False Prophet which are the Universities and Monasteries three unclean Spirits viz. Politicians or Men concerned in the Government of the State Ecclesiasticks and Philosophers or private Men all which three Orders our Modern Jesuits do comprehend like unto Frogs because they leave the Springs of the Holy Scriptures and hide themselves in the stinking Ditches of Heathenish Phylosophy and Law-knowledge croaking whilst the Summer of mans Favour lasts but being silent in the Autumne and Winter of Tribulation and are not able to indure the Light of a Candle in darkness The 4th Year The 4th Month. The 4th Four Weeks The 4th Twenty eight Days 62. For they are the Spirits of Devils doing Wonders being pourd forth in the Wrath of God upon Church-men Lawyers Physicians Philologers and Philosophers who despise the Truth being full of Falseness Pride Covetousness and Envy and who by their Monstrous Wickedness blaspheme God in their Universities and Monasteries which go forth as Embassadors or Envoys or as Academicks under what form soever whether of States-men Church-men or private Persons unto the Kings of the Earth that is of Europe and of the whole World of Asia and Affrica to gather them together as well by their Words as by their Writings in Opposition to this sixth Judgment and the Reformation of Christendom by the Conversion of the Jews and Turks To the Battle of the great day even of the Sixth General Judgement of God the Almighty who will as certainly to the astonishment of the World accomplish the same as soon as the 1260 years of the Roman Dragon are expired as he hath already certainly fulfilled the five fore-going Judgments The 5th Year The 5 Month. The 5th Four Weeks The 5th Twenty eight Days 63. Behold I come as a Thief the Roman Babylonish Whore not believing nor so much as thinking of it because it will be at a time when if ever before she will be guarded with Armies and Power and when being deluded by the persuasions of her Flatterers she shall firmly expect the Subjection not only of the Reformed Churches but of Mahumetanisme also Blessed is he that watcheth in the outward inward Life of Christ that he be not seduced by the Whores Felicity and keepeth his Garments which he hath once received under the Vials of Reformation that he may not walk naked by apostatizing from the Reformed Churches because of the Tryals by God laid upon them and they see his shame his Temporary and changing Faith which seeks the good things of Christ but not his Cross 64. And he gathered them together Upon the expiring of a Time Times and half a Time into a place called in the Hebrew Tongue Armageddon to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which the Greek renders 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tahanach upon the Waters of Meghiddo a place Famous for the overthrow of the Canaanites after their twenty years Tyranny and Oppressing of the Jews For then the threefold Papal Army opposing it self against the three Armies of God will at length appear to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Harmageddon an Unfortunate Troop and accursed of God and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hhermagheddon their Army a Curse which shall pierce through all the Members of the Papal body according to what the Rabbins deliver concerning the force and Efficacy of this word or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hhormagheddon
their Army Hhorma which was a City totally overthrown by the Israelites And therefore shall not always be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Armageddon a Treacherous Army and an Holy League designed for the Ruin of the Reformed Churches The 6th Year The 6th Month. The 6th Four Weeks The 6th Twenty eight Days 65. Neither is the sixth plague poured forth alone but the seventh meets it and is poured forth together with it even as the third and fourth Adolescence and Youth did meet together so also do concur the sixth and seventh Vial Old Age and Decrepid Age The said seventh Vial being already poured forth during the sixth Vial and shall yet daily be poured forth with it until the full accomplishment of the sixth general Judgement shall put an end to this sixth Vial. For the seventh Angel poured forth by the Restorer of true Christianity and his Eastern and Nothern Associates his Vial by putting an end to the four Monarchies and by founding the Universal Christian Kingdom into the Air of the whole Earth whether known or unknown and of all men whether of the Highest Mean or Lowest Condition The 7th Year The 7th Month. The 7th Four Weeks The 7th Twenty eight Days 66. And there went forth a great voice of the Universal Effusion of the Spirit out of the Temple of Heaven from the Throne of the Heavenly Reign of Christ restored upon this our Globe saying with the voice of Jesus Christ himself now appearing and working in a manner which hitherto hath been strange and accustomed It is done what was to be done the sixth Judgment is accomplished according to my Prophets the whole Mystery of God being now also to be fulfilled 67. And there were Voices of the greatest forebodings and Thunders of most vehement Commotions and Lightnings of most quick and sudden Actions The 8th Year The 8th Month. The 8th Four Weeks The 8th Twenty Eight Days 68. And there was a great Earth-quake of UUniversal changes amongst all Nations and their Conversion to the Christian Faith such as was not since Men were upon the Earth so mighty and so great an Earth-quake because Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews was owned and acknowledged under the whole Heaven to be the true Son of God and the Three-one God began to be worshiped by Jâ—phet Sem and Ham. The 9th Year The 9th Month. The 9th Four VVeeks The 9th Twenty eight Days 69. And the great City the Universal Babylon of all Kingdoms by reason of so great Commotions was divided into three parts and the Cities of the Nations all Idolatrous Kingdoms fell the Universal Divine Reformation advancing happily The 10th Year The 10th Month. The 10th Four VVeeks The 10th Twenty eight Days 70. And Babylon the Great which from the fall of Adam the Tower of Babel and Confusion of Languages hath been propagated through all Men came in Rememberance before God as it also happened at the Building of the Tower of Babel to give unto her the Cup of the VVine of the fierceness of his wrath by the Universal Destruction of all Confusions and Falsities all divided Languages being reduc'd to that one which was lost in the Adamical and Babylonish Confusion 71. And every Island of particular Government and Worship with estrangement from others fled away nothing but the Universal Truth being now promoted in all places at the command of God and the Mountains of opposing and resisting Powers were not found because God by his Wars did root out all that were disobedient 72. And there fell a great Hail of the wrath of God of the weight of a Talent out of Heaven not from Humane Instruments stirr'd up in the Wrath of God upon the Men who were disobedient to Gods Commands and the Men blasphemed God like unto Pharaoh and the Israelites in the Wilderness because of the Plague of the Hail for the Plague thereof was exceeding great as being intollerable to Adamical Men and indeed the heaviest of all Plagues which the Holy Spirit in other places of Scripture hath more largely declared and discovered 73. For when it shall be fulfilled and they were both cast into the Lake of Fire burning with Brimstone then also will that be fulfilled which is here spoken concerning the great Hail and soon after also will be fulfilled that which is spoke concerning the Devil and he bound him a thousand years which most desirable time will put an end to all Plagues 74. The Sixth Plague shall destroy the Papal Antichrist who hath already reigned above a Thousand years by succession the last of which shall then kill himself but the Seventh Plague shall cast the Personal Antichrist of whom the Papists have more knowledge than the Reformed bating their Preiudices in favour of their own Antichrist alive together with his false Prophet into the Lake of Brimstone during a Thousand years who because there are only a few months allotted for his reign is no other than covertly hinted at in Scripture under the notion of the Roman Antichrist 75. Hear these things O Reformed House of Israel and Juda and wonder at or rather ponder your blindness for you will find that this my Explication of the Sixth and Seventh Vial doth so much agree and harmonize with the Writings of the Modern Divinely Inlightned Prophets Wisemen and Scripture-learned that you will be forced whether ye will or no to confess that they have left us and you a more particular Explication and a fuller and clearer Revelation of the Revelation which they received from God 76. My dear Brethren hitherto you have been mistaken in your blind Zeal and being loaded with Prejudices have rejected those who were sent to you from God should you go on to do so against your Conscience and Knowledge how dangerous would it prove to your Souls 77. O Lutheran Israel God was pleased to send to thee at one time three Men who were furnished by the Holy Ghost far beyond thy comprehension with the true Gift of Prophecy Wisdom and Scripture-learning the Prophet was Kotterus the Wise-man Behmen the Scripture-learned Engelbrecht whom thou hast regarded as Israel of Old did the Messengers which were sent unto them to thine own great damage Hast thou despised them despise them so no more seeing them to be sent by God but think them worthy your serious reading again and again and amend your Errors and Antichristianisms as you are commanded by God in them and others of their fellow servants 78. And thou House of Juda God hath chosen thee in thy King Frederick the Fifth with whom he might take his delight speaking all those things concerning a Man of the Fifth Reformed Church individually which were to happen to the whole Reformed Church under the Sixth and Seventh Vial and again concerning a Man of the Antichristian Church Ferdinand the Second revealing all things contrary Hath thy Ignorance hindered thee from understanding this Now understand it examining them diligently whom hitherto because of the riddle of their Prophetick
fall thereby occasioned my foster Mother a Widow my doubled five Years time and lastly my Age of Twenty eight Years 20. All which things I intend if God permit to publish in their due place and time to the Glory of God the Confirmation of the Prophets the Terror of the Pope the Instruction of all and the quieting of my own Conscience in so many doubtful Cases though the Angel of Sathan who buffets me day and night for the superabundance of Revelations doth so much endeavour to suppress it that by reason of so great loads wherewith I am burthened by my self my Friends and Enemies I scarce know my self nor am able to serve my self or others 21. What I have said concerning the one Mouth of the Prophets in their fore-telling of my Call the same I affirm concerning all other Matters and I have abundantly demonstrated the Unity and Truth of the Numbers of Kotterus and Drabicius in the Treatise I wrote at Smirna intituled The Mystery of Kotterus his 21 Weeks And to adde further weight for a weighty Enquiry into these Mysteries I will here set down three Capital Concordant places which in few words contain great and weighty Matter and from which so great a Light will appear in and out of darkness as will be abundantly sufficient to establish the Authority of the Revelation of these Revelation Commentaries 22. The first place shall be that of Drabicius Rev. 395. Count the number of the 70 Weeks from the day of my Departure if thou hast Vnderstanding where an end must be made of the days of Battels and Wars which are at present for when they shall cry out Peace and Security I will come to execute Judgment the time of times and half a time drawing to an end The 70 Weeks of Daniel concerning which the Revealer had said before that he was come before they were ended do end in the 37 year after his Birth from which time of his Departure if you again count those 490 yearly Weeks they point us to the Year 527 and to the Antichristian Birth of that cursed Body of the Civil Law compiled in the Reign of Justinian the Emperor when the one time of the Apocalyptical Dragon began even in the year 527 his two times began in the year 887 and his half time 1607 whose end will be in the year 1787 when the 1260 Apocalyptical years will be ended 23. The second place is that of Kotterus Chap 1◠v. 40. Where he begins to reckon the half time of the two Treaders-down from the Year 1260 as the Original sheweth the Translation being faulty here as in many other places according to which one time begins with the Year of Christ 612 Two times at the Year 948 and Half a Time at 1620 which accordingly expires with the year 1788 which Half Time being 168 Years do agree with the 21 Weeks of Kotterus which makes 147 Years and end in the year of Christ 1768 which time is aenigmatically yet most truly and clearly discovered under the Number of the Years 1620 and 1624. Whatsoever therefore the Holy Scripture hath fore-told concerning the Papal and Turkish State under the Time Times and Half a Time of 1176 Years will be fully accomplished in the Year 1688. 24. The third and last place is that of Kotterus Chap. 24. ver 50 being the most notable of all These are the times of the Woundings of the Beast Take Notice of these that follow 1329 1428 1527 1626 about these times it must be fulfilled Seven Years backward and Three Years after These numbers contain each of them 42 being thus placed one above another 13 14 15 16 29 28 27 26 42 42 42 42 The two Angels command him to reckon Seven Years backward and Three Years after and tell him that every one of these 14 Numbers contain 42 being placed as before which is the true Key to underderstand these Numbers The Seven Years numbred backwards are 1230 1131 1032 933 834 735 636 and the Three Years after 1725 1824 1923 every one of which Numbers which is wonderful contains 42 being placed as the Angel appointed thus 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 17 18 19 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 25 24 23 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 25. These three places will abundantly bear witness of the Harmony of these Numbers and of the mistakes of all those who hitherto have interpreted them and I should have been afraid of opening this last place which takes so large a compass but that I read in the Prophets themselves that it is lawful at present to unlock that Mystery of Numbers For the 1176 years of the Two Witnesses expired Five Years since and their 1260 Year-days and Solar Months which are expresly allotted to them in the Revelations will according to the same Explication end with the Year 1685 after another double Quinary is past And in this regard the First Day begins with the Year of Christ 425 the Second with 785 the Third with 1145 the Fourth with 1505. So that both according to the Solar and Lunar Months the determined time of the Two Witnesses is come and now that is fulfilled The Spirit of Life from God came upon them and they stood on their Feet and a great Fear fell upon those that saw them this present Epistle witnessing to the truth of it 26. And you 'll easily know the reason why the Numbers extend themselves as far as 1923 so you do not confound the time of the Sixth Vial with the Seventh Now the end of the Sixth Vial is the total Exclusion of the cursed Pope the Period of the Four Monarchies and the full Conversion of the Turks upon which shall immediately follow that interval of the Seventh Vial in which the Universal Conversion of all Nations shall be carried on and way made for the Thousand Years Apocalyptical Reign 27. All the Confusion which hitherto hath been amongst the Good as well as the Bad hath proceeded from the Ignorance of these Vials the material Object of the Prophets Wise-men and Scripture-learned of the Sixth Vial being the 17th Chap. of the Revelations whose chief Contents is Come hither I will shew thee the Judgment of the great Whore who sits upon many Waters but that of the Prophets Wise-men and Scripture-learned of the Seventh Vial is the 21 and 22 Chap. of the Revelations whose main scope is Come hither I will shew thee the Woman the Bride of the Lamb. This one thing is sufficient to overthrow all erroneous Opinions about Modern Prophecies and to shew the difference of the Sixth and Seventh Vials the former of which doth chiefly Prophecy concerning the Judgment which is to pass upon the Pope the later concerning the Reign of Christ and the utter overthrow of all other Kingdoms Those very words Come hither I will shew thee do fundamentally declare that there will be a calling of Prophets under the Sixth and Seventh Vials neither do they understand the Letter and Historical Context of Scripture who do not understand the Emphasis of these words Come hither I will shew thee 28. It remains yet that I should speak concerning the Angel of the Seventh Vial and of other Applications of the Modern Prophets of the secret Designs of the Papacy to destroy the English Dutch French German and all other Protestants which are hinted at by the Prophets and many other such like Matters were I not to keep my self within the limits of a Postscript And you O Pastors Sheep and Lambs of the Reformed Israel and Juda weigh in the equal Ballance of Christian Truth what hath been here propounded to you and do not kick away your Salvation least at last ye be wise too late The Grace of Jesus Christ the onely begotten Son of the Living God be with you and with us Amen This Postscript was written at Rotterdam the 26th of May 5th June in the Year 1679. FINIS ERRATA P. L.   23 8 Read Lutheran 26 27 your 28 3 days 31 2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 8 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 32 17 unaccustomed 50 4 the Catechisms of Luther Embden Bohemia Poland the Palatinate Geneva and Augspurg These following Books of the Author will be translated into English with all convenient speed 1. THe Fore-runner of the wonderful Five years examined 2. Ten London Epistles of which the present Epistle is the Ninth 3. The Lilly-Rose-sprout or Behmen New-spirited 4. The Lilly-rose-bud 5. The 1st 2d 3d. and 4th Book of Songs 1st day 499 2d day 835 3d. day 1171 4th day 1505 which ends at the year 1674. See Sect. 101 102 103. See v. 59. * The number Five See Sect. 59 and 102.