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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76489	A demonstrative Scripture-proof from Mahometan times the kingdom of Christ must needs be in its succession, 1697. By T. Beverley.	Beverley, Thomas.; Beverley, Thomas. aut	1692 (1692)	Wing B2135A; ESTC R205342	20,309	22

the North and of the South c. 11. 5 c. peirc'd to the East and I find these Great Agreements between this Prophetic Portraicture and all I had said on the Types Rev. 9. 1. The Antichristian State as the last Course of Gentile Times shall continue till the Indignation against Jerusalem treading it under Foot shall be accomplished v. 36. 2. The Mahometan Southern or Saracenic and the Northern or Turkish Powers are the First Judgments or Trumpets on the Roman Antichristian Empire but making one Trumpet with the Last Woe Trumpet v. last call'd all Three the single Trumpet of the Three Angels Rev. 8. ult come in the last Course of Judgment so Daniel says at the Time of the End v. 42. 3. The Turkish Power as it began by Trangolipix in Persia and seiz'd Egypt by Saladin which as it is said in Daniel did not Escape v. 42. so it came to a Settlement in the Ottoman Family which grew great above Any of the Former Turkish Families But it was in greatest Trouble by that so dreadful Impression from the East-North v. 44. by Tamerlane who carried with him the Proud Sultan Bajazet in a Cage of Iron and held him in Fetters to his Death After this the Ottoman Princes went on with a Fury to Kill and to Destroy as the Prophecy Speaks and planted their Tabernacle or Palace between the Seas viz. at that Meeting of the Seas a most Illustrious Character of Constantinople on which Account it is called The Port even as its Mountainous Scite makes it called the Holy Glorious Mountain It might be understood of Judea and Jerusalem which was soon after seiz'd by Selymus out of other Mahometan Hands viz the Sultans of Egypt But I rather understand it of Constantinople call'd so by way of Allusion to Jerusalem because Constantine the First Christian Emperor made it the Tower of the Christian Empire and as it were a Jerusalem Consecrated to God and to Christ v. 45. And how when All was thus setled to shew The Turkish Potentacy would be then in its last Stage of Time It is said This Northern King shall come to his End and None shall help Him And it appears an Insinuation That when he shall be very near his End he shall have some unaccountable and unexpected Help such as at this Day he finds from the French Power that by Diverting the Imperial Arms gives an Aid to the Continuance of this Turkish Power for a small space But this notwithstanding He shall come to his End and None shall be Able by Any Help whatever to prevent it even at this 1697. But because the Knot of the Eclipse of Christianity Rests in the Antichristian State First the Vnion of the Pope and the Ten Kings shall be fully Dissolv'd And then this Woe shall pass away I may in the Last Place Add We must Understand the Prophecy of Daniel and of the Revelation by their Types or never Understand them till the Time of the Days Dawn and the Day-Star of the Kingdom of Christ it self Arising in our Hearts For that they shall not be understood except in Eternity sure Any One will be asham'd to say But that it is our Duty to understand them Now is plain by what the Apostle says We Do well to give heed to the Sure Word of Prophecy shining in the Dark Place or Time of the 2 Pet. 1. 19. Apostacy and that Christ says Let him that hath an Ear hear and here is Wisdom Let him that hath it count Now that the Types and the Events Rev. 13. 8. pitch'd upon Answer with so Great Exactness we may know by comparing the Events which I have given with the Events God hath himself expounded Prophetical Types into that he might thereby give us an Example in Expounding Prophetical Types as that Nebuchadnezzar was the Head of Gold c. Dan. 2. 38. That the Ram was the King of Persia that the He-Goat was the Dan. 8. 21. King of Grecia that the Kingdom was divided after the Death of the First King of Grecia by whom None doubt Alexander the Great is Intended putting an End to the Persian Monarchy in Darius the Last King These things then give us the Key of Expounding Prophetic Types 1. Agreement of the Types and of the Events 2. In an Orderly Succession 3. That they be Events of a High and Signal Eminency in that Succession 4. That they keep the Course of Time a-foot * Within Dan's 4 Monarchies to the great End or Kingdom of Christ 5. That being rightly Hit they are as significant as plain Words All which shew the Necessity of the Types I have insisted upon to be the True and that there can no other be Expected So that I boldly conclude whoever considers them must say They are certainly the True or at least most Rationally to be believ'd to be the True Prophetical Types and so that Christ's Kingdom must be so near And thus I have given such Arguments for the Great Change of the World at 1697 that as I most Humbly Appeal to the All-Knowing Spirit concerning their Truth in Agreement with what He hath so long a-go spoken and written so I am most Bold to say Neither the Understanding of Angels or Men can Resist Them having so Great a Presence of Divine Manifestation in Them If any be perswaded we are yet to expect that Slaying of the Witnesses before this Happy Change which must have its Three Years and a Half I have given Great Reasons against that Judgment as founded on that Text Rev. 11. 9 and am sure it cannot be the Sense of a Prophecy that requires a much longer space to fulfil it self in even of the whole 1260 Years of the Apostacy yet with a peculiar Respect to the Deepest Time of both the Pagan and Mahometan Tyranny according to the Allusion to the Deep Part of our Lord 's being in the Grave those Three Days so Famous in Evangelical History Yet I will not be so bold as Absolutely to Deny there being just possible Time before 97 to be so and yet the Witnesses to Rise so soon but there may be some such Space by way of Re-Capitulation and Epitome of that Deep State at the Last of the 1260 Years Which if Decreed by God may be insinuated by the Framing the whole Vision of the Witnesses so as to End in Three Days of Years and a Half and then the wonderful Change at their Rising by the Spirit of Life entring into Them to ensue And hereunto it would much incline any ones Judgment to observe the Great Wickedness found at this Day among the Protestants their Vnpreparednefs and deep Aversation to such a Kingdom of Christ as is so Near and that therefore some very Dreadful however Short Course of Judgment must winnow the Reform'd so call d Nations and even Churches for it And if this be so We must of Necessity be Just Entring into so Trying a Time and ought to prepare for it and to take into deep Consideration All such Possible Fore-bodes of it in the Present Agitations in the World we now see especially if Tending to a Re-Revolution the only Possibility of such a Black State in Humane View within these Kingdoms But though in Abundant Caution and warn'd by the Last Summer's Suspension of Decision I thus speak Yet I hope Better Things and Things that have Fast Hold of the Kingdom of Christ which shall Reform the Age by an Unknown hitherto since the Reformation Multitude of Converts and for all such Rebels as will yet Hate to be Reform'd and will not see They shall see and be purg'd out by the Majesty of the Lord then Appearing And whether of th●se Two Judgments on this Prophecy is the Justest to it I am perswaded the Next Summer's Action will give a certain Prospect For Time is so short to 97. that the Motion in Relation to it if there should be such a Gloomy Three Years and Half must be very quick If Any still think The Time Allow it All for Preparation and No such Dark Parenthesis or Time between is too short both in regard of so many of the Ten Kings and Kingdoms Remaining Popish and even in regard of the Vn-Reformed Protestancy I say for a Conclusion Thus it ought to be that Prophecy may be Fulfilled For this Blessed Change and Re Reformation is to be at the End of Half Time And the very Nature of the End of Half Time requires That All Things should be Running on in a full Stream and Carier as it were for a whole Time and then suddenly and to Amazement coming to an End in the very Half or Midst as the Man spoken of Jerem. 17. 11. who is Cut off in the midst or as the Hebrew Word is even as of Half Time in the Half of his Days and at his End proves a Fool so shall the End of the Antichristian State be sudden surprizing and at an Instant as a Line that Appears in full Length but cut off in the Midst The Suddenness is express'd by the same Hour the Surprisal by Great Fear or Affrightment Revel 11. 13. And So Let it be Oh Lord. THE END