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A27608	The good hope through grace the jubilee of the kingdom of Christ shall come upon the counterfeit jubilee of Rome, and before the end of the following year 1700, shall begin to bring under desolation that great city and its papacy : therein uniting the year 1697 with 1700 according to prophecy / humbly presented to the faith and prayers of all sincere Protestants by T. Beverley.	Beverley, Thomas.	1700 (1700)	Wing B2150; ESTC R37108	45,862	81

and Introducing False Religion as Jeroboam of old 1 Kings c. 12. 32. 38. In the Revelation He is Full of the Names of Blasphemy that is of Idolatry For so the Idolatry of such as make a Profession of the True God is styled Isa 65. 7. by the Judgment of the most Learned Interpreters And indeed it can be no other For to acknowledge a Beeing so Holy Wise Jehovah the Eternal Infinite Spirit and then to put upon him the Folly and Nothing as the Apostle styles it of an Idol is perfect Blasphemy And so it is to arrogate to be worshipp'd with him And it is most observable the Revelation frequently Joyns this Beast Worshipp'd and his Image Worshipp'd plainly importing his Idolatrousness Aholah and Aholibah those Idolatrous Churches of Israel and Judah are a most Graphical Description of this City or False Church in the same Kind of Style Aholah and Aholibah were set out Ezek. c. 23. in all the Lewdness of Infamous Women Those False Churches of Israel and Judah if it be Lawful at all to use the Name of Churches in their Case and particularly Judah have the Title of an Imperious or as it may be render'd exactly to the present Case Imperial Whorish Woman Ezek. 16. 33. So Rome is Pictur'd having in her Hand a Golden Cup full of the Wine of her Fornication Charact. 4. That which is so Generally to be observ'd in the Papacy is the very Height of a most Bold Blasphemous Arrogancy The very Supremacy he usurps in the Christian Church shews his Luciferian Pride The Title HIS HOLINESS is most Sacrilegious Seeing God Only Holy is much more Alone Holiness it self His Claim of Infallibility above Councels is a small Thing for he exalts it above Scripture it self That in the Sense of the very Pharisees Blasphemous taking upon him to Pardon Sin his Indulgences Pretended Deliverances from Purgatory his Counterseit Miracles his Anathematising and Cursing down All to Hell who detest his Idolatries shews him that Proud and Haughty Scorner who Deals in Proud Wrath His setting his Throne and Lifting his Scepter above the Thrones and Scepters of Princes is most Horrid and Intolerable Insolency In All this the City is one with him sitting alought upon him and Born upon him in all this Babylonish Lucifertanism Esay 14. 12. Let us observe how Scripture-Predictions shew this his Sathanic Presumption Daniel calls it his speaking Words High Great Words against the Most High c. 7. 25. Standing up against the Prince of Princes c. 8. 25. Speaking marvellous things against the God of Gods and He shall magnify Himself above every God or Supreme c. 11. 36. He sitteth in the Temple of God as God shewing himself he is God He exalts himself above All that is called God the Scripture Expression for Princes or that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is styled August taken from the Name of Augustus the Greatest of Rome's Emperors and become at that Time the Imperial Title Thus the Apostle describes the Beast calling him the Man of Sin in the Antichristian Apostacy he was describing and that we may know him to be the Beast he is call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That Lawless Prince that does what he will Dan. 11. 36. and the Son of Perdition as Revel 17. In the Prophecy of the Revelation he is thus set out To him was given a Mouth speaking Great Things He opened his Mouth in Blasphemies against God to blaspheme his Name The World wonder'd after him They who dwell upon the Earth shall worship him whose Names are not written in the Lamb's Book of Life He comes as Sathan with All Deceivableness of Vurighteousness in them who perish on whom God sends strong Delusion to believe so great a Lie as the Papacy in its whole Frame makes up Compare herein 2 Thes 2. 10 c. Rev. 13. 3. 8 c. The City that Sodom and Great Whore tbat corrupteth the Earth with her Fornications Rev. 11. c. 17. That Woman Jezebel which calleth her self a Prophetess which Teacheth and Seduceth the People of Christ Christians by Profession to commit Fornication to have Communion with Idols Rev. 2. 20. She hath on her Forehead a Name written Mystery as if she were indeed the Church of the Living God the Pillar and Foundation of Truth the Catholick Church out of which none can be saved But it is the Mystery of Iniquity For the Inscription goes on Mother of Harlots So that a most Unintelligible Composition of Wickedness makes up this Mystery I Appeal now to All whether such Insolencies of Arrogation ate to be found in the whole World as in the Papacy and its Church of Rome or whether such Known Matter of Fact in All these Things could be more plainly set out than they are by these Prophecies Charact. 5. The Great Fraud Dissimulation Worldly Policy and Intrigue we know in the Papacy and the Pseudo Catholick Roman Church all its Cheats and Impostures make up such a Character of it that we find that Great Swedish Statesman Puffendor spends the whole Chapter forementioned in the Discourse of it who the he does not appear to have the least Relation to Prophecy yet writes so according to it on that Subject That it is very wonderful even as if he had aim'd to Justify Prophecy by so notorious matter of Fact Let us then Review Prophecy on this Head first in Daniel The Little Horn had the Eyes of a Man a Look or Aspect more Great Rabbi-Like of more Perspicacity than his Fellow Horns He had Eyes and a Mouth that spoke Great Things the Mouth as of a Man of Eyes Dan. 7. 20. He understood Dark Sentences Through his Policy He causes Craft to prosper in his Hand c. 8. 25. In the Revelation c. 2. 14. In the Church of Pergamus the Prophetic Symbol of the Church of Christ Under the Antichristian Throne of Sathan the Papal Supremacy we read of that Politician Prophet Balam who taught Balac to cast a Stumbling-block before the Children of Israel by drawing them into Idolatrous Practices In the Church of Thyatyra the Symbol of the Protestant Churches under Popish Persecuting Princes stirred up by the Papal Antichristian Church as it will be call'd which is Represented by Ahabs Queen Jezebel then which none more apt in the whole History of Scripture could be found as might by a Compare be made apparent But her Whoredoms and Witchcrafts cannot be passed by with which Jehu upbraided her so reproachfully as the Protestant Princes have done Rome Oh that so many of them had not fallen into Jehu's great Evil not to have made a perfect Reformation But That which is most to the present Purpose is That she had together with her assumed Propheticness the Depths of Sathan as the Arcana Regni her deep Maxims of Sathanic State by both which she enchants be witches intoxicates Princes and Nations Charact. 6. There is nothing more notorious than the dreadful Persecutions and Storms of Violence the Papacy