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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

than the Discyphar and Explication he hath given of the Community we are now to treat of and the Recommendation of it to the Minds that have Wisdom to observe For having first given it under the Emblem of a Woman sitting on a Beast of seven Heads and ten Horns he unriddles the Heads to be seven Mountains and seven Kings and the ten Horns to be ten Kings and the Woman to be that City that at that time Reign'd over the Kings of the Earth which is as plain an Interpretation he meant Rome as if any one in these days should first draw London in an Emblem or Device and then say It is the City that is at this time the Capital City of the Nation I doubt not any one that understands common Sense would think it plain enough London was the City and if the Emblem were Treasonable the Innuendo would be thought sufficient to take away his Life And That It is the present Papal Rome the Procedure of the Argument is even as easie For if the Emblem of London were given with the Succession of Kings from the Conquest under which it hath been the Capital City till it came down to our present Soveraign whom God long preserve and let our King live for ever it would be a sure Character the present London was intended even so sure may the present Papal Rome be known to be intended by this Prophecy These two things I look upon as indubitably certain the Discourse of which runs to Pag. 17. And as to the Calculation of Time I fix upon I think it as clear certain and easie as by the Ballance of the Time of the Moon with the Time of the Sun It would be to a skilful Astronomer to tell us how many Lunar Years or Years of the Moon have pass'd from the Conquest when we are agreed how many Years of the Sun it is as is endeavoured to be made out to Pag. 32. However the Two first That Rome and the present Papal Rome are design'd by the Prophecy are as certain as plainest Words of the Prophecy expounded by it self can make them On which I throw down the Glove to all Gainsayers And if so they are sufficient to Found well the ensuing Inferential Corollaries to the End and to build an earnest Persuasive to come out of that * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Communion as the very Force of the Prophetical Word implies as well as the Vogue of Language and if we are Come out by no means to look back nor so much as to make any Terms with it For it can give us no Equivalent to incline us to yield it but a Toleration to its re-seating it self into a possibility to make publick Offers of its Golden Cup to the Nation No Indulgence can be a valuable Price for this For The Glory of Christ and of his Kingdom which that Eclipses is of more value than our Liberty and yet God forbid but that all due regards of the most Christian Evangelick Spirit should be born to all the Persons from the highest to the lowest who are of it much more to all Protestant Dissenters But to suffer so far as it is in our Power legally and in our Places to hinder this Prophetess from Seducing whoever reads these Seventeenth and Eighteenth Chapters of the Revelation and what is to follow to the End of the Prophecy which cannot come before the Fall of this Babylon and finds as I am not afraid to say I have proved It is the present Papal Rome that the Prophecy intends will see Argument sufficient against it if he be a Christian and a Protestant and the more zealous he is of Christian Protestancy still the more Reason And as for all Ambidexters Two-handed Achitophelians or Judasses who think to find it in their Account to be on both sides as they are now the private Scorn and Despisal of the Age so in future Records and not long hence they will stand Pillars of Salt. Pag. 27. Line 24. read after Wound During the Christian Emperour lin 27. blot During the Christian Emperour REVEL 18. 4. And I heard another Voice from Heaven saying Come out of her my People that ye be not partaker of her Sins and receive not of her Plagues THIS Voice is Another For it succeeds the mighty Cry of the strong Voice of an Illustrious Angel which had gone just before and proclaim'd Babylon the Great is Fallen is Fallen Now although these Two Voices are prepar'd for a particular Time and that is still to come yet they sound backward from that Time wherein they are to have so perfect an Elevation to the Times before and so consequently to all Time forward from that very Time wherein these Voices were Heard and Recorded by the Apostle John the Apocalyptical Amanuensis or Scribe that so from that very Time the Execution of the Things declar'd may be expected and prepar'd for as in their proper Time to be executed But more especially since the Time of the Reformation and so onwards the nearer we approach the Time for which it is prepar'd the more the Voice with which we have now to do is to be attended as if it sounded louder and louder And it shall most sensibly do so when the Fourty two Months of the Beast are expir'd which we shall find will be at the farthest Nine years hence Let us then consider the Importance of this Voice and it is plainly the Separation of the People of God and so of every Person among us if we are of his People from any Communion with that City or Community concerning which we shall by the Light of this Prophecy duly weigh'd and consider'd be convinc'd that It is the City symboliz'd or set out by this Mystical Woman And our Separation must be proportionable to the danger of being tainted or struck with the Contagion of its Sins or Apprehended and Reachd by the Thunder-shaft of its Plagues For so is the Charge Come out of her my People And so is the Enforcement Lest ye be partaker of her Sins and lest ye Receive of her Plagues Now that we may do this It is highly Expedient at least to use the utmost Enquiry into this Prophecy that we may know by the Characters of it What and what manner of City the Spirit of God in it doth signifie and what or what manner of Time also It hath denoted or else we cannot so well judge what is 1 Pet. 1. 11. our Duty or what our Danger For though I would allow with as much Largeness of mind as can be desir'd that by the General Rules of Universal Scripture we may without the particular Understanding of this Prophecy be secur'd from both the Impurities and from the Judgments of this City by Adhering to the Truth and Purity and Mercy of the Christian Religion in Doctrine Discipline Worship and Practise according to the just measures of the Word of God yet we cannot do it with those