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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27580	An apology for the hope of the Kingdom of Christ appearing within this approaching year, 1697 wherein some of the principal arguments for such an expectation are briefly couch'd and the greater objections answered : presented to the notice and examination of the arch-bishops and bishops now in Parliament assembled / by T. Beverley.	Beverley, Thomas.	1697 (1697)	Wing B2120; ESTC R12419	20,157	28

forth as the Great Prince to have That great 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that Fold that is a Court One Shepherd and One Fold In the Goodness and Faithfulness of the Spirit of Truth Guiding into all Truth Glorifying the Lord Jesus Christ by taking of the Things That are His and so of his Kingdom and shewing them to his Servants and shewing them Things that are to Come I have Great Assurance in his Tenderest Mercies having Led and Guided and Supported me thus far in the Search after his Kingdom and Manifested so much to me He will not Leave more to be ashamed of my Hope I can Humbly say before Him as his Servant Jeremy Oh Lord thy Words have been Found and I have Eaten them and they have been the Joy and the Rejoycing of my Heart I Humbly therefore Expostulate with Him Wilt Thou Wilt Thou be to me as a Lyar I know it is Impossible He should Lye He is God that cannot Lye And therefore herein His Servants may plead with Him The Vision shall not Lye He will not ●e a● Waters that are not sure of which he hath given so Lively ● Description in comparing the Unfaithfulness of Friends to The● My Friends have dealt Deceitfully with me as a Brook and ●s the Streams of Waters that pass away Which are Blackish by Reason of Ice c. But what Time they are warm They Vanish when ●● is Hot They are Consumed out of their Place the Paths of their ●y are turned aside They go to nothing and Perish The Troops of Tema Looked and VVaited ●he Companies of Seba were Confoun●●d Because they had Hoped they came thi●her and were Ashamed Jer. 15. 15. c. Job 15. 15. c. How fully does this Express what Jeremy understood by Waters not sure And how Applicable to My Case if the Hopes I have of the Kingdom of Christ should prove mistaken It may be said Indeed if I were sure I had the Right Sense of ●●ripture-Prophecy the Argument were enough sure I therefore ●erein Rely on his Grace that he hath Guided me into the Truth ●● his Word that as I am sure His Word cannot Fail He cannot 〈◊〉 so neither can any Iron any Created Power break the Nor●●rn Iron or prepared Steel of his Wisdom Truth and Power But lest any should say If you have such a Fasth have it to ●●r self before God and Happy are you if you do not find Reason ● Condemn your self in what you so much approve This therefore ●my Third Profession The things that I have so heard and seen by continual search into Meditation upon and seeking Divine Di●●tion in I cannot but speak I look upon the Kingdom as of ●ose Things wherein we should confess Christ and not be ashamed of ●● before Men who so despise his Kingdom and of those of which Confession is to be made with the Mouth uneo Salvation And therefore ●● have Humble Hopes That Jesus Christ hath been Graciously ●●as'd to draw out my Heart Thoughts Meditations to ●●ch Every Retirement of his Word therein above All that ●e been before me And to give me Greater Confidence and ●●surance and a more open Profession and Publication of what I have Found So that he will graciously Accept Remember Pardon spare me through the Multitude of his Mercies and not 〈◊〉 up to shame and Confusion of Face before Men and confess 〈◊〉 before his Father and before his Holy Angels That such a State of his Kingdom and such a Revolution with it and by it shall this very Year Appear to All th● World as hath never been since the Apostacy of Humane Nature and that therefore All Mighty Works shall shew forth Themselves in it The Spirit shall be poured out from on High The Wilderness shall Become a Fruitful Field viz. in the highest Purity and Prosperity of his Churches and that which look'd like a Fruitful Field become Desert even the Antichristian State and whatever partakes of it the Glory of All this World and the Grandeur of it and so the Everlasting Gospel shall be preached to every Nation Tongue and People and every Thing move to the Glory of that Kingdom To whom then Most Reverend and Right Reverend could I present equally as to you the consideration of these things who I am assured are so Richly Furnished with all Advantages of Learning both in that Sure word of Prophecy and in History and Chronology Correspondent therewith And whose very Title Imports the Office of Those who are on the VVatch Tower waiting for the Speaking of the Vision which will not Tarry beyond its Time And therefore should be able to Answer the Question VVatchman VVatchman what of the Night Or how Near is the Morning and who as Persons of an Elevated Station ought to Vindicate your selves by a Higher Zeal for the Kingdom of Christ and even by a Holy Haste to bring Him to his Throne above othe●● That you may not Fall under any Ombrage of the Anti-christ … Hierarchy who as Feet of Clay are found in the Undermine of the Kingdom of Christ and are Broken by the very First Openings of it as upon which that Image Rests that Stands in delay of that Kingdom How therefore should you be able to answer that Question What do you more than others for the Kingdom of the Chief Shepherd who hath it on his Vesture and on his Thigh King of Kings and Lord of Lords and who Profess to Attend upon him more Near and in Ordinary 〈◊〉 ●●st Humbly therefore submit this Apology to your Severest ●●ation and that as Prophets that is Persons above Ordinary ●●ted in the Sure Word of Prophecy for no otherwise can it be 〈◊〉 you would Judge The Grounds Themselves I freely tender to ●age and Learned a Christian a Protestant Presidency There is a 〈◊〉 of Intuitive Knowledge and Plerophory of Satisfaction I must with ● Reverence yet and Humble Fear Hope I have a Right unto as ●●per to the having seen together the Curious Lines of Prophecy e●l to the Curious Lines and Symmetry in the Works of God which ●● most Exact Astronomer Anatomist Naturalist Mathematician 〈◊〉 or can Observe I desire the Things I offer might be brought 〈◊〉 Seriousest Consultation and Debate as in the Days of Herod ●●erning the place where Christ should be born so now concerning ●● Time of his Kingdom Appearing It cannot be but most Great ● be near the proclaiming of the Kingdoms of this world to be the King●●s of the Lord and of his Christ How would it releive in All the ●ost Inextricable Labyrinths of the present Difficulties of Nations ● our Nation particularly to our King to the Councel of the Nation in ●●liament That He whose Right it is is now about to take to Him●● his Great Power and to Reign and to destroy them who have been ●●ong destroying the Earth I know the Paganizing Nations and Spirits will be very 〈◊〉 even at the Mention of these Things as Vtopian Imagi●● Fanatical and think to Scoff it off But as an Hidden and ●●ncealed Train that Gives Fire and hath its Effect in a Mo●ent so the Chain of Divine Councels the Predictions of ●●nisciency in All Times take Full Effect in their own Just ●●ments how Unawares soever the World be concerning them ●● He who is wonderful in Counsel and excellent in working ●● neither be out-witted nor over ruled What I offer can be onely from Sense of Duty to declare ●●at I have so Full Assurance of Duty as to the Great Re●●r of Prophetical Secrets the wonderful Numberer of the Times ● Prophecy so Duty to the Publick in the so Generally Ac●owledged Distress of Affairs For which my Constant Sup●●cations Ascend as also for You whose Most Christian Assi●●ce and Administration according to Your Higher Sphere I Beseech and who I Hope Count it Your 〈…〉 to Serve Him who is the Prince of the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and therefore will not with a Gallio-like Spirit 〈…〉 any of these Things Most Reverend Right Reverend Your Most Humble Serv … In That Kingdom of our Lord T. BEVERLEY This First Month of the Year 1697. FINIS

Observation wherein Divine Super-Intendencies upon all Historians concerning it to Fix the Beginnings of it in 1517. does so assure the Beginning of Half Time as to assure also the End of Half Time as of an 180 Years and so of Time and Times at 1697. and therefore the Beginning of Times or the Two Times at 797. and of the First Time at 437. The Times and Half are contrived therefore into such Large Cantons of Time as One Time Two Times and Half a Time that They may be seen in so Large Spaces and so much together and yet in such Minute Exact Divisions as Days of Years especially and on purpose that they might be fully known and exactly understood all along and at the End which with so many Concurrences before-nam'd and of which I should be most Ready to Give the particular State more at large to a Free and Desirous and a Judicious Recipient does not make it strange to determine so particularly upon 97. and may free from that Objection But what is there of Preparation to so great a Change or what Instruments in view for such Effects may it be said To which this Answer is to be given That when we have to do with Him who Planted the Heavens and Laid the Foundations of the Earth who telleth the Number of the Stars and calleth them All by their Names and appoints them every one their Course to Fight in Nothing is Hard. Or how wonderful soever it be in our Eyes can it be so in His Who works his signs and his wonders in Heaven● and on Earth and none can stay his Hand or say unto him what doest thou who works and none can let it Hath he spoken and shall he not do it Is Any Thing too hard for me sath our Jehovah And as to Means and Instruments altho he could raise them if he pleas'd Yet His Word of Propheby so expresses the doing of it as if he would make use of No Hand but his own The Stone cut out of the Mountain is not in Hands That Power that stands up against the Prince of Princes shall be broken without Hand Now this without Hand is a manner of speaking the Spirit of God is pleased as by the Translation of it from Daniel into the New Testament to Apply a Tabernacle made without Hands the Circumcision without Hands the House not made with Hands Eternal in the Heavens appears to be an Expression of God working by an Immediate Power of his own and by Himself It is by a Spirit of Life from God and by a Voice from Heaven The Four Wheels ●f the Four Monarchies are brought into the Temple under the Che●●bims and without any more ado It was cried concerning them in ●y Hearing the Hearing of the Servants of God Oh Revolution It immediately pass'd upon them All and there were Loud Voices ●● Heaven upon it proclaiming that Revolution The Kingdoms of this World are bocome the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ And this is done at Half Time Ending which signifies Suddenness and S●rprise When this is done He who does it Comes with strong Hand His Arm Rules for Him He understands his own Work In the midst ●f All the Perplexities of it His work is before him He understands ●● perfectly and throughout Every Spring every Wheel to be mo●ed Every Pin of Connexion But that which may much indeed Terrify and Discourage is the Great Unworthinefs of All Sorts and Degrees of Men of Nations and even of Churches so that some very Sweeping Judgment ●●d Desolation rather or at least is first to be expected The Hope yet is That when God works for his Kingdom and seems ● be Lifting up his Hand to Destroy He will work for his own Names 〈◊〉 in a Deliverance He will consider He to whom the Kingdom ● to be Given is worthy And when the Lord Jesus Christ the An●● of the Covenant comes into his Temple He does not expect to ●●d Refinement ready to his Hand but He comes to Refine He hath ●●ven an Example in the Apostle Paul of All Long-suffering and Pa●●ce especially prepared for that very Time Those who shall Hereafter in a great distance of Time Believe on Him His Reward ●●●th Him He expects it only from Himself when his work ie so ●●re him And even to Impenitents there is first a time of Warning ●●d Testimony and then the Day that will Burn as an Ouen and the ●i●ked are as Ashes under the Soles of the Feet After this warning is ●he perdition of ungodly Men reserv'd for punishment I know very well Notwithstanding all this Assurance and ●e Reason of it I have given It will be said yet to me Seeing ●●is Year ●7 is in so near on Approach and there are no Appear●●ces of such a Succession or opening of the Kingdom of Christ ●ght it not therefore to shake your Confidence and put a diffi●ence upon such a continued Affirmation of such a Kingdom to ●ake any Entrance at this Time In Answer to this I would make this Humble Profession or Confession in these Three things First I cannot be shaken in my assurance Because I find my Grounds in the Word of God unshakable and unmoveable A False Witness that hath no Foundation Perisheth in this Sense He cannot Bear up to nor continue in his Testimony But He that Heareth and knows on what Grounds He speaks Affirmeth constantly He that hath seen nothing as the Ground of his Prophecy is like a Reed shaken with the Wind But they that have the Word of the Lord Continue to speak it While I am so certain The Kingdom of Christ Enters its Succession without any delay whenever the Last of the Four Kingdoms Ends That the Third Woe of the Seventh Angel that Sounds the Kingdom of Christ Cometh quickly I look to see therefore what assurances there are this Last Kingdom even its Last State is upon giving up I find then the Times and Half Which are the Term of the Last State of the Last Kingdom By the Time since Constantine By the Time since the Christian Empire Demised By the Time since Mahometanism and more Particularly the Ottoman Empire hath entred the World By the Time since the Reformation first entred by Luther just ending All these have such Lively Sculpture and Engravings in the Sure word of Prophecy and their Times so Delineated I do not better know the Course of the Months in the Year the Days in the Month or the Hours in the Day then I know the very Last Year of the 1260 Days of Years is now entring and to Run its Circle and that within its Circle the Kingdom of Christ will come into its Succession The Second thing that I most Humbly desire to be Stedfast Unmoveable Unshaken in and upon is the Exceeding R●●s of the Grace and Loving Kindness of God in Jesus Christ ●e Great High Priest and Apostle of my Profession That Shepherd of the Sheep that is to Shine