Testament gives no Representation of them any further then as They are Recapitulated in the Beast So that the whole Apocalyptick Prediction appertains onely to and gives the Schemes of the state of the Roman Empire after it had subdued all the Three first Kingdoms under it self and become the Vniversal Monarchy of the World. And this it does with Relation to the Church of Jesus Christ as its principal object and aim which is a most remarkable Consideration Assuring us the Revelation is a Continuation and further Explication of what remain'd unfulfill'd of Daniel's Prophecy from those very first days of the New Testament or when They began That we may then go on with the Prophecy of Daniel As the Calendar we are upon was most declaredly brought down to the Roman Monarchy at the Birth of Jesus Christ So there are several Periods of the Calendar from that Time wherein the Prophecy of Daniel and of the New Testament Agree most Illustriously with History in Relation to the Roman Empire Period 1 It is most notorious notwithstanding the Birth Death Resurrection Ascension of Jesus Christ and the Apostolical preaching The Roman Empire continued one and continued Pagan in the supreme Powers and in the Body and Bulk of the People From hence it is evident the Calendar was not Run out because the Kingdom of Christ did not onely not Fill the Earth but did not consume other Kingdoms as it is first to do before it Fills the Earth And therefore no Interpretation of Filling the Earth with the Gospel or Spiritual Kingdom can stand Good And further the Calendar was not come down to the Feet and Toes of the Image nor into the Head of the Beast dishevelling it self into Ten Horns as it must in its last state But during the Pagan Empire it remained perfectly One and therefore was not in its last state Now of this Pagan Empire Two Things are most known That Jesus Christ having come into the Flesh under the Roman Monarchy Sathan the old Serpent and Dragon being aware that that Kingdom which shall utterly destroy his Kingdom was entred He as a Dragon watch'd that manly Birth to destroy it if it were possible first He then inhabiting the Pagan Roman Empire it is fitly Resembled to a Dragon in regard of that Spirit that inhabited it by a most particular influence over it And because when Christianity began to spread it self in that Empire in a multitude of Christians It had a Jealous eye over it and over the Empire it might raise Therefore by Ten so known and Famous Persecutions it endeavour'd as a Dragon to devour it and to surprize that Supreme Monarch Jesus Christ who should Rule the Nations with a Rod of Iron which the Christian Church compar'd to a Travelling woman was to Bring forth Herein the Pagan Empire is Resembled to Pharoh the Egyptian King of Old who fearing the overgrowth of Israel into a Kingdom as a Dragon lying in the Nile waited to devour it by Killing the Male Children And thus Herod the Roman Vassal though King of the Jews watch'd to have devour'd Jesus Christ the Incarnate King who shall sit on the Throne of his Father David and of whose Kingdom there shall be no End. Thus admirable is the Concinnity and Agreement between the Pagan Emperors of Rome that was to be a Spiritual Egypt and the Dragon How plain therefore is the Calendar of the Roman Empire in this particular to the very last of it as Pagan Dioclesian and the other last Heathen Emperors being among the Persecutors of the first rank and therefore we must needs be certain whereabout the Time of the Calendar then was For we know this state lasted about 300 Years after the Resurrection and in the clearness and particularity of this the New Testament exceeds the old Consider further this Imperial power with relation to the rest of the World and it was Salvage Dreadful and Terrible as Daniel styles it and as the Revelation styles it as a Dragon devouring and Consuming all other powers as with Iron Teeth and stamping on them as with Legs of Iron on which account the Dragon is said as it were to sweep down the Third part of the Stars or other Princes Rev. 12. 4. and powers of the World with its Syrma its Tail or Train of Power and enlarged Empire And in that it is call'd the Third part of the Stars It thus sweeps down It is agreeable that its Succession to the Third or Graecian Empire should be Connoted which it so particularly drew down from whence the Third or Third part becomes in this Prophecy a Cypher or private Character of the Roman Empire Whether in the West the most proper peculiar Rome and Roman Empire or in the East that affected also to be call'd Roman Empire even as Constantinople New Rome and These Two are therefore in these Prophetick Hieroglyphics call'd Two Wings of the one Great Eagle or Roman Empire And that we may know the Prophetick Calendar was taken care of in this Pagan state of Roman Empire the whole Roman Beast that is said to be diverse from the other Beasts in regard of its many and more Eminently Seven forms of Government very strange to the other Three Kingdoms before it especially in the last the Papal Supremacy was pictured as with Seven Heads Heads of that City that when St. John wrote the Revelation Reign'd over the Kings of the Earth and therefore could be no other then Rome And it is particularly said Five were Fallen One then was which we know could be no other then the Pagan Emperors Thus exact is the Calendar or account of Time till Constantine under whom the Empire became Christian Because all History Agrees whereabouts in Time it was Period 2 The second Period of the Roman Empire since the Resurrection according to Prophecy and most known in History is the Christian Roman Empire under Constantine and his successors And the Time is very well known in History and Agreed whereabouts it was But it must be acknowledged this Period or change of the Empire from Pagan to Christian is not at all shaddowed in Daniel's Prophecy in either of the Two Visions of the Image or of the Beasts it hath no Lines or Mentions And the reason is very clear and plain For when the Spirit of Prophecy was pleas'd to give a Calendar of Time by Two Visions Both representing a Monarchic Frame though of Four Monarchies Yet they were but One in a Bestian enmity and Contrariety to the great Kingdom of Jesus Christ A Christian Monarchy that was given for a short space as an Emblem shade or Specimen though but a dark one of that Kingdom of Christ could have no proper place there but must have confus'd the Frame But as if it were on purpose to compensate the silence of the Christian Monarchy in Daniel and because it may seem a Discontinuer in the Bestian Calendar of Kingdoms and in that Frame of Four and
THE KINGDOM OF JESUS CHRIST Entering its Succession at 1697. According to a Calendar of Time. Drawn by the Four Monarchies and by the Time Times Half Time allowed to the Papacy and the Ten Kingdoms as the last state of the Roman or Fourth Monarchy then Ending Given in Daniel and Expounded by the Revelation in Consent with All History and carrying on the Scripture Line of Time. By T. Beverley a most Humble Minister in the Word of God and the Testimony of Jesus Christ Printed in the Year 1689. TO THE Most Excellent MAJESTY OF WILLIAM and MARY By Especial Grace of God According to Prophesie KING and QUEEN of England Scotland France and Ireland Truly Defenders of the Faith. AND To the High Court of Parliament At this Time Assembled Grace and Peace from Him which is which Revel 1. 4 5. was and which is to Come And from the seven Spirits which are before his Throne and from Jesus Christ the Faithful Witness the first Begotten of the Dead and the Prince of the Kings of the Earth Most Dread Soveraigns Most Reverend and Noble Lords Most Worthy Senators and Patriots THE Great God of Heaven having made known of old even to Pagan Princes by his Servants the Prophets what should come to pass hereafter concerning the Kingdom of his Son and the cleansing of his Sanctuary his truly Catholic Church He hath Dan. 8. 14. enabled me the most unworthy of all his Servants the least of Saints and the chiefest of Sinners for the last five years to search and to understand by Books the number of years Dan. 9. 2. He would accomplish in the Patience or Delay of the Kingdom of Christ and in the Desolations of his Sanctuary I having then certain knowledge that the. Accomplishment of those years is as near as 1697 Have believ'd it my Duty in Fear of God who hath committed the Dispensation to me as also in Allegiance and Fidelity to the Supreme Government of these Nations to make publication of the Time and also to explain All those Symbols wherein the Divine Prophesie hath been though more hiddenly yet as certainly when justly concerted conveyed as by plainest words and to make Dedication of it to the Soveraign Government of this Nation with a lowest Obeisance as the meanest of Subjects and yet with the Assurance arising from the Evidence of Sacred Truth that so the Prophesie might be known in the Grand Pretorium or Pallace of the Nation and thereby in all other Places The View presented is worthy the profoundest Consideration of the Greatest Princes Statists and Divines Four Universal Monarchies which have one after another borne such sway in the World and whose Monarchs caus'd their Terror in the Land of the Living for near Daniels Twenty Ezek. 32. â—17 c. Dan. 8. 14. Three Hundred Evenings and Mornings prophetically multiplyed into years but most of Them being gone down into the Pit have laid their Swords under their Heads with their Iniquities on their Bones and to Rise with them if Enemies to the Kingdom of God and herewith the Antichristian State for above these last twelve hundred years with the Monarchs of the Ancient Imperial Roman Territories who have for most of the space given their Power Revel 17. 17. to the Beast But some have already The Rest shall Renunciate to that Adulterous Church and though some of them now with a High Hand cause their Terror in the Land of the Living yet They shall without Repentance beare their Shame also in going down to the sides of the Pit But how much more does that indeed Vniversal Kingdom of Christ at the end of these Four deserve Thought that shall receive These and many more Kingdoms into its Bosom and it self never End and that within so few years It is therefore Princely Wisdom and Nobleness to search and to command that Acts 17. 11. search be made into the Scriptures of the New and Old Testament whether These Things be so or no Not that Divine Oracles can be over-rul'd by a Counsel of Angels or Men but that by the Divinity of Holy Records the certainty of the Prov. 22. 21. Words of Truth may be Receiv'd For the more They are examin'd the more evident their Truth will be And least the Things being indeed so so Grand a Protestant Assembly should under-value Them and Know with Disadvantage hereafter so Great a Prophesie hath been among Them Ezek. 2. 5. and They Rejected it And why should it be thought incredible that the God of Heaven the Revealer of Secrets should so near the Time make Known as He hath always done by whom He pleases the Great Things that are to come to pass so shortly God hath honour'd this Nation with a most stupendious mirror of Providence concerning the Expiration of the Papacy so nigh at Hand why may He not be pleas'd to Honour it also with such a Glass of Prophesie that by the Understanding of the Times our Israel may know what it 1. Chron. 12. 32. ought to do and All the People be most devotely at their Command both as to Affairs Ecclesiastical Civil Military for the steerage of All which the Consideration of the Kingdom of Christ so near would be as the Pole-star For that an Account of All may be Render'd with Comfort to that Universal Kingdom so nigh Approaching what Purity in our Religion Holiness Justice Mercy Amendment of Life Reformation of Manners Contempt of the World Magnanimity Moderation of Church-Power Brotherly Love is necessary even in preparation to so Glorious a Revolution Now the Eternal Wisdom and Counsellor give his Urim and Thummim to the Evangelical Ministry of the Nation a Divine Sentence into the Kings Lips that His Mouth in this Matter may not Transgress in Judgment a Spirit of Judgment to them who sit in Counsel and an Ear to his Churches to Hear what the Spirit sayeth to them that so a People in these Nations may be made ready prepared for the Lord and a High way for our God So prayeth GREAT SOVERAIGNS And Supreme Councel Your Most prostrately Devoted in the Records of Jesus Christ T. Beverley TO THE King and Queens Most Excellent Majesty And to the High Court of Parliament And to All who Love and wait for the Appearance of Jesus Christ The most Humble Petition of your Faithful Minister in the Prophesies of Scripture THAT seeing the Apostle hath promulg'd that Divine 1 Chron. 9. 14. Canon That they who Preach the Evangile or good Tydings should live of the Evangelick reward that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rev. 10. 7. is given to Him that is the Messenger of it And seeing most particularly the declaring the Finishing of the Mystery of God in the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is styl'd God's Evangelizing by the Prophets And Lastly seeing it hath pleas'd the Infinite Grace of God to constitute me his most unworthy Servant such an Eu-Angelist to this Nation as to declare the
in Nebuchadnezzars first Babylonian Kingdom there were those sudden Appearances of the Divine Kingdom in his Acknowledgments of God which Antichrist supplanting it made him the more exceedingly and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Antichrist 4. As a further Care of Prophecy concerning the Calendar of Time and the Interposal of the Christian Empire it gives us this plain Account of the State of the Roman Bestian Empire during that Christian Empire viz. That by Reason of the Christian Empire that was not Bestian nor any of those Heads The Roman Beast lay wounded and it is said the Wound was a Wound unto Death and a Wound with a Sword and a Wound in one of the Heads and that we may take further notice of the Wound It is said His deadly Wound was healed and he did Live. Rev. c. 13. Now this Wound hath been much mistaken by some Interpreters as if it were the Wound given by the Barbarous Nations invading the Empire of which in the next particular we shall find another Account But it is very plain because the Wound was in one of the Heads and that the Christian Empire upon which the Barbarians fell most peculiarly was none of the Heads It must needs be that the Wound intended was on the Pagan Imperial Head whom Constantine the Great and Theodosius the Great besides other the Christian Emperors so remarkably Wounded even unto Death that It never recovered in a purely Pagan but only in the Pagan Anti-christian Head. To which because of the Congenialness of the one to the other the Dragon is said in prophetic Language to deliver his Throne Power and Authority by way of Succession and to live and to be worship'd in Him. So that though we are not plainly told it was the Draconic Head which we found to be the Pagan Empire was wounded yet in that it is said The Dragon was cast out of Heaven that the Dragon gave his Power Throne and Great Authority to the Beast and was worship'd in Him the World wondring after the Beast There is nothing more plain then that it was the Pagan Dragon that was wounded by the Christian Empire coming next after it and healed in the Beast coming in as a Head. This then was the Wound that the sixth Head as Pagan Idolatrous and bloody could not maintain its Supremacy and Imperialism till the Antichristian Head succeeds it but an Empire a Christian Empire prophetic of the Kingdom of Christ rooting out Pagan Idolatry and advancing Christianity so newly persecuted to death by Paganism came between by which though the Empire continued yet the Bestianism of the Empire was ready to dye and had dyed but that there was a decree to permit it to be Heal'd and Reviv'd within a short space in the Antichristian Beast which could therefore be no other then whatever succeeded the Christian Empire in Roman Beastian Supremacy though as we shall find only in an Image of Supremacy and therefore must be the Papacy else the Wound were not Healed to this day which were most contrary to Prophecy as destroying the frame of the Bestian Monarchies in Daniel and the whole Image of Things in the Apocalyps of John. Now this Note of the Beast wounded is so great an assurance of the Care of Prophecy over the Calendar given in Daniel though this Wound was not revealed in his Prophecy as improper to it and not to its Time as can be given and makes us more certain of the Truth of it then if that occasion of its Care had not been as the Truth of a Prediction is more seen by taking notice of a preternatural Accident and foretelling it then if such an Accident had not been we are therefore to consider the Prophecy of Daniel and John as all one Prophecy of the Divine Spirit in both and as but of one and the same Author writing several Prophesies in several Times and filling up the former by the latter And thus all History agrees That the Christian Emperors came after the Pagan Emperors and disabled their Idolatrous and persecuting Power And that after the Christian Emperors came the divided State of the Roman Empire in several Kingdoms and Kings united in the Papacy and hath continued to this very Day which must therefore be the Beast with his Ten Horns though all be convey'd as it ought to be according to this Prophecy in a Mystery and in an Image or else the Revelation cannot be a True Prophecy 5. There is another principal Note that the Sacred Prophecy of the New Testament gives on purpose to shew that the Bestian-Antichristian-Roman Supremacy in the seventh Head call'd the Beast and his Ten Horns did not immediately succeed to that Pagan Beastian Monarchy but that there was the coming between of a Christian Empire and that the Bestian Kingdom that followed that Christian Empire was the Papal Kingdom the knowledge and regard to which is of so great moment to this prophetic Calendar that Prophecy hath taken so great Care in it and It is thus to be understood The Four Monarchies succeding one another as in the Image of a Humane Body the Succession must be as by way of kind Communication as is between the several parts of the same body And this was to shew one Idolatrous Spirit a Spirit contrary to the Kingdom of God and of Jesus Christ inform'd and intelligenc'd the whole from Head to Foot. But though these Monarchies were so united in one Spirit and therefore as in one Body yet to shew the contrariety of each succeding to each former Kingdom they are in another Vision represented as Four Salvage Beasts each latter ravaging on that in power before it Thus the Persian as by a Belluine Might vanquished the Babylonian the Graecian the Persian the Roman the Graecian as Daniels Visions c. 7. c. 8. and all History make notorious And thus it was determin'd by God that the Ten Kings that came in as Feet of Iron in Succession to the Legs of Iron and the Horns in Succession to the Iron Teeth should come in as by way of Leaving or Legacying or kind Communication as from part to part And so indeed the Pagan idolatrous Empire did as it were naturally and spontaneously resign and dye into the Antichristian rising out of it thus it is represented after a prophetical emblematical manner by the Revelation The Dragon gave its Throne Power and Great Authority to the Beast that is the Pagan Emperor to the Papal Antichrist what ever distance of Time there was between them and so they worshipped the Dragon in the Beast as aforesaid Thus it was as between the Congenial one Pagan and Papal Beast and the Legs and Feet of the Image But then as the Vision of the Beasts imports each Kingdom succeding the former as by violence so these Horns or Ten Kings came by violence into the Empire for so it pleased the wise and Holy Governour of the World it should be The Nations foreign to the Roman Empire
of the Pagan Empire and the Times of the Antichristian Bestian Empire that They could not meet but then according to Daniels Prophecy expounded by the Revelation They clos'd for then the Dragon or Pagan Empire gave its Throne and Great Authority to Antichrist or the Bestian Empire and the Antichristian Times began And thus the man of Sin was held back as the Apostle said that He might be revealed in his own Time and the middle Time being of an arbitrary interposal but Divine is an Inter-reign of no Account in the Bestian Empire but all comes naturally together that the Dragon as was said Gave his Throne c. as if there had been no Interruption And how decorous now to the Type is All the State of Things as to the Heathen Empire remov'd 1. It was absolutely necessary to the Succession of the Papacy the Heathen Empire should be removed It was then most decorous it should be done by a Christian Empire the Emblem of the Kingdom of Christ and not that the Feet and Toes of Iron of the Roman Bestian Empire should ravage on the Legs of Iron nor the Horns of the seventh Head on the sixth Head which according to prophetic Representation kindly yielded the Succession to it as was said 2. The Christian Empire gave Great Advantage to the Feet of Clay or the Antichristian Hierarchy to negotiate their own power by the Favour of Christian Emperors and their Donations of Titles and Revenues to Christian Bishops and to a Christian Clergy as they affected to be call'd And Shoales of People then coming in to the Princes Religion there was a condescending to the Pagan Divi consecrated Temples Holy-days Priests Pontiffs Rites to the Dead Images So that Resemblances were found for them of a Christian Name until Things came to that pass that the Servants of God were seal'd that is the true Christian Glory was stay'd seal'd up and reserv'd to the future Time of the New Jerusalem and secur'd for that against Antichristian Contagion The Gentiles in Pagan Rites enter'd into the outward Court or Profession of the Christian Name and the True Worshippers retir'd into the Temple The Witnesses put on their Sackcloth out of whith they are not yet and the True Christian Church fled into the Wilderness in which it is still Hid though not so close since the Reformation but yet waits the perfection of the Reformation All which are Expressions of the Antichristian Succession together with the Ten Kings and for which the Trumpets were stay'd from sounding till he who judg'd Righteously of the True Epoch of the Apostasie gave them leave to sound In the second place as to the removing of the Christian Empire how admirably fitted are the Types also For seeing the Bestian Supremacy in the seventh Papal Head and the Ten Kings could not be till all Light of the Sun Moon and Stars of the Christian Empire were darkned and the Empire it self quench'd as a Lamp in Water and Rome so often taken and re-taken that it had no Title of Supremacy over it but that of Bishop and the whole Glory of the Empire blasted as by Hail mingled with Fire who so fit to do this as Barbarian Nations whom Prophecy brands as the Instruments of Sathan the Dragon persecuting the Woman the Church that brought forth the manly Child and who were to be the Horns of the Antichristian Beast by whose Mediation the Dragon gave his power to Him But this Empire however it carried the Name of Christian and bore the Emblem of the Kingdom of Christ still as Jerusalem even after the Crucifying of Christ was call'd the Holy City yet it was so deeply by this Time Antichristianiz'd that the Judgment of God administer'd by these barbarous Nations did indeed pursue it For he abhor'd the Idolatrous Prostitutions and Relapses to Paganism under the disguise of Antichristianism from which he had so wonderfully rescued it As therefore of old He gave up Jerusalem to be either Captivated or destroyed by litteral Babylon on whose Idolatries it doted even so He now delivered up the Christian Church and Empire as so Antichristianiz'd to be either destroyed or enslaved by those Feet of Iron and Clay and that seventh Head and its Ten Horns so that what Sathan did with a Hellish malice God most Righteously and Supremely though most severely executed by Him. And thus we have brought down the Calendar and settled it on that great pillar of Time the Christian Empire Inaugurated in Constantine Illustrated a new in the great Theodose and Vacated in Augustulus from which as we shall find the man of sin in his own Times as the Apostle calls them commencing and of which we have a numeral Calendar given us by Prophecy And the Time where we are to begin we are most certain of by History That it was close to 475 from whence therefore it is to be dated for then Augustulus was compell'd to Abdicate Empire Then therefore Antichristian Times began as I shall now go on to make out and to shew the state of Things from that Time going on till now as we all in great measure must needs know to be very Astonishingly agreeing with Prophecy I have now I say brought down the Calendar in my own Judgment and I offer it to the Judgment of all the Serious supposing it acording to the Spirit of God and therefore undeniable to the fourth Roman Monarchy establish'd upon an Article of Faith at the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ I have led it from thence through the Pagan State of it of which a Dragon watching a Manly birth to devour it is an Emblem so significant of the dreadful Persecutions for above 300 years after Christ as to be even demonstrative and so conducted it to the Christian Empire of which the Dragon cast out of Heaven and a Manly Child caught up to the Throne of God in a Kingdom decreed him as in Heaven though not immediately Appearing on Earth as is manifest by the Churches flying into the Wilderness is an Emblem so Beautiful and Inviting as not to be refus'd And if we do but yield that to be the Emblem of the Roman Monarchy first persecuting Christianity and then it self becomming Christian we are of necessity concluded that either that Christian Empire was all the Kingdom of Christ or that the Roman Monarchy is that Roman Fourth Monarchy still in a direct opposition to the Kingdom of Christ For so the Fourth Monarchy must be the fourth Monarchy till then and if the Roman be the Fourth that must be so Now that that Christian Empire is not the Kingdom of Christ we must needs know because it did not consume all other Kingdoms and because that of Christ shall never end but that of a Christian Empire would continue but a short space About an 150 years was the bounds of it And violently it was made to cease by the Barbarian Force which Prophecy calls the Dragon persecuting that Christian Church that brought
very little distant from it as not to destroy the very symbol of the Half Time is so certain a Barrier of that Half Time and the Cessation of the Christian Empire so certain an Epoch of the three equal Times that we cannot fail of proportioning them all amongst themseves and knowing the longest of their duration can be but till 1697. The Calendar being thus determin'd let us consider the distribution and as the Half Time hath appear'd to be a Time of declination So the first Time Comprehended his succession his ascending to Supremacy receiv'd from Phocas ratified by a Councel at Rome soon after and so onwards his Bestianism and Idolatrous establishing Imageworship by the second Counsel of Nice His becomming a little Horn and rooting up any Horns in his way his disposing of Crowns and Excommunicating Emperours All which he attain'd before 797. the Period of his first Time acording to the ballance of it with the 1260. day And the constituting and Crowning as Emperour Charls the Great of France very close to it in the year 800. and within it if we Calculate the Times and Half of the little Horn as we may with very little variation do within themselves This Observation of the Beast rising as from an Infantile State shews us The Revelation considers his succession as an Imperial Bestian Seventh Head bearing ten Horns who becoming within his first Time a little Horn also himself rises according to Daniel to his number at his powerful and effective Image And this arising to and settlement of power very naturally agrees with the first Time of any Potentacy His two Times however full of variety of accidents as All worldly power is yet speak one main and deep of power as the two Times are joyn'd but with some little distinction as they are two Times in which there was a spread of the roots and Branches of Bestian power viz. in the coupling of the two Times and so we may observe at that very Time viz. in the Eleventh and Twelth Centuries enlarged Idolatries to the Hoast more Blasphemous assumptions in the Temple and Church of God His Persecution of the Saints and Churches of Christ more Bloody the History of the Albigenses and Waldenses is the Pyramid of it His Exaltation of himself above all even the highest Names of Majesty and Empire more prodigious and Luciferian as the History of his Treaty of the German Emperors and of our own King John are abundant Testimonies These things were most notorious about the latter part of the First of the two Times ending 1157. and the second of the two Times beginning when the other ended The Half Time is remarkable for the Cutting off such a Lap of his Bestian Purple and Scarlet with so much Dishonor the Continuance yet of so Great a part as necessary to his Half Time and that yet more Infamous and Destructive stroke on these Feet of Clay that now hangs over Him and will certainly Fall by his Periodical and Fatal 1697. Thus every way is our Calendar assur'd in the whole and in the Distribution And with how great Grace do these three Times and Half agree with that Moon intercepting and so Eclipsing the Glory and Kingdom of Christ first partial till after the middle of the First Time then total till the end of the Two Times At the Half Time the First Re-appearances of Light were very surprizing But there is yet an obscurity But It shall at last so go off So that the Sun of Righteousness shall shine out in its Strength and the Light of one Day shall be then as the Light of any seven that have been hitherto since the Reformation Object Now if It should seem any Disparagement to the Calendar that the Turkish so vast Empire hath no place in it though seated in so large Traicts of the Ancient Roman Empire and in the Imperial City of its Eastern Empire Constantinople call'd New Rome Answ The Answer is clear It is so far from disparaging the Calendar that It much strengthens and Illustrates it For It hereby is most evident that only those Four Monarchies we have so much spoken of make the Calendar and only in that order wherein the Divine Spirit plac'd Them so that neither Persia nor Graece whatever Greatness They have had since the former was demonarchiz'd by Alexander and the latter by the Romans have any place in this Calendar And though the Turkish Power hath invaded so much what was heretofore Roman Empire Yet It hath been on purpose so plac'd by Divine Vengeance that It might the more closely offend and annoy the Apostate Roman State and be a more effective Woe upon it In the mean Time It hath been so limited that It could never possess Rome nor the Amplitude of the Western Empire Yet it is evident Prophecy is not ignorant of the Mahometan Greatness but most abundant in the descypharings of it both in Daniel Dan. 11. 40. under the King of the South as the Saracens and of the North in the Turks and so in the Revelation chap. 9. in the First Woe Trumpet of the Locusts and the Second Woe Trumpet of the Armed Horsemen and that They Both Fall in with the Times of the Calendar and are as much engrafted into it as They have been or are into the Roman Empire as hath been shown in the Line of Time where It ought to be and the Times of the present Mahometan Kingdom in the Turks shall certainly take End with this Calendar when that Apostate Bestianism shall cease to require so Great a Vengeance upon the Christian World on which Account when the Witnessess enter into Glory at the Period of the 1260 Days It is said the second Woe is past but a Greater Third Woe immediately seizes the Apostasie even the succeeding Kingdom of Christ The naming of which by way of strongest Interest should oblige us to watch and keep our Garments that our Shame may not be seen For as that Kingdom will put an utter end to all Pagan Imperialism in the World by ways and Methods known to Him who does whatever He pleases and as It shall utterly destroy Antichristianism which we so Highly have disavowed So It will be as severe on all Formal Ceremonial Persecutory Protestancy and not only that but all Prophane Irreligious Protestants unreform'd in Heart unreform'd in Life For It is a Kingdom of Truth Righteousness and Peace not in Word but in Power And seeing It is certainly so near as I have Represented and that All the Policy and Power of the World can no longer interpose against it but that Christ will take to Himself his Great Power and Reign however Angry the Nations will be at it and will destroy them that have destroyed so long the Earth and will stay the Wicked with the Rod of his Mouth and with the Breath of his Lips How diligent should All be to prepare for so Happy a Revolution if we are found of Him in Peace