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A27615 The late great revolution in this nation argued according to Rev. 17. 16. 17., to be duely ascribed to the supreme spirit now about to move in the fulfilling all prophecy, the earnest of which is vouch-saf'd to us in this so wonderful change, in pursuance of a discourse published twelve months past, viz, The command of God to come out of Babylon : wherein is more fully proved the [now] Roman Communion is intended and that the words of God will be fulfilled concerning the present state of the papacy in its expiration, and the hatred of the whore, 1697 / by Beverley. Beverley, Thomas. 1689 (1689) Wing B2160; ESTC R14224 25,830 31

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it let them consider it is very dangerous to say of any Book of Scripture with the unlearned we cannot read it because we are not learned and with the learned we cannot read it because it is sealed If there were by the pouring out of the Spirit upon the Reformed an united endeavour to search by the Books of Scripture and other Ecclesiastical Records with Prayer what and what manner of Time the Holy Spirit in it did signifie as they have search'd for the Sense of Antiquity in some things of far less moment or concern to the Kingdom of Christ what doubt can there be but that the two leaved Gates of Truth in it had open'd to them and by their concerted Light and Authority Princes would be awaken'd and perswaded so that the great City and its Decimal power would soon feel the Earthquake and fall I am not at all in doubt but that to me less than the least of all Saints and the chiefest of Sinners as upon the Banks of Chebar Ulai and Hiddekel and as in the Isle of Patmos that Grace hath been vouchsaf'd upon my most Attentive Thought and Contemplation of this and other Prophesies of Scripture and upon the whole Scheme of Scripture Time that I have certainly found That at the year sixteen hundred ninety seven These great Things shall come to their Complement that are to be at even Dates with the Proclamation of the Kingdom of Christ That the Pollution of the Sanctuary shall be so far finish'd that the measur'd Temple and it's worshippers sealed up within eight the last twelve hundred sixty years shall be opened and a far more excellent Church-state Appear The Ministrations of Truth and Divine Worship much purer as the Ark of Testament seen and the Witnesses Shall have come out of their Sackcloth wherewith the so long Apostacy together with the Turkish Woe a Judgement upon that Apostacy hath cover'd them I have publish'd several Discourses to this purpose viz. A Scripture line of Time and Solomons Song adjusted to it and have found none who hath thought fit to remonstrate to them or resist the Evidence with which I have written not because I have written but because of what I have written I may say It is written It is written in the Scripture of Truth Particularly the annexed Discourse I publish'd a year ago and I cannot but look upon the present appearance of things in the World a Justification of it I have observ'd hitherto a very wonderful progress of Divine Government in the World according to the Calculation of Prophesie I have made I observe a great Preparation for the Cessation of the Turkish Woe upon the Imperial Constantinople and the Greek Cities that those Candlesticks may be Re-placed I observe yet This seems to wait for the Fall of the Tenth of the great City which motion it is to attend I have been always of the Judgment the Reformed Churches that lye in the Bowels of Nations whose Princes and Staple Laws had not established the Reformation were in Danger of fresh Martyrdoms by the cruel Policies of the Jesuites Order whose Arcana Imperii or Politics may well be styl'd the depths of Sathan I have understood those Churches symbol'd by the Church of Thyatira in regard of whom the Feet of Christ burn as in a Furnace to this day The Nations whose Princes and Laws have establish'd the Reformation I have had firm Assurance could not be re-enslav'd under the enchantment of Restoring that Power to the Beast which they had repeal'd from him nor should the Churches in them except by a short Hurricane be in any danger of force I have had the same Confidence with particular Relation to this Nation and the Churches in it and that the Soveraign Power of it shall be of the principal that shall perfect that Revolution of the Reformation into it's Complement and on that account have pray'd for the good understanding of our Supreams to that very end I have compar'd such Reformed Churches and particularly this to that of Sardis esteeming our greatest danger to be a Security a slumber in a State though splendid as to this World yet short of the Glory intended by Christ in the Advances of his Kingdom and that thereupon he would come upon us and we should not know at what hour he himself would come upon us I find no Reason to change or so much as to suspect but to be more and more confirm'd in these Sentiments I make no more doubt the present Conjuncture is a dawn of that great Revolution awaiting the Year ninety seven next ensuing than I doubt whether the dawn of the day be in advance to the perfect Light because I am not upon any single Conjecture but upon the whole Conspiration of Apocalyptical Times compar'd with the Registries of History in the course of Time since our Lords Resurrection as famous and as well known as the Reformation from Luthers Time is known I am not on any single Line of Time but upon the Concatenation of Times throughout Scripture not as it is perplex'd with the Irreconcileable Chronological Controversies but assur'd by Massy Sterlyn Scripture both by compare of the Texts themselves and Scripture Reason argued from them I have only three parts of that Line to publish viz. from Abraham to the going out of Egypt from the going out of Egypt to Solomons beginning the Temple and from the Temple begun to Cyrus his Decree for restoring it after the Babylonish Devastation I have also prepar'd so great a Probation that the day of Judgment and the Resurrection so generally acknowledg'd in Christian Doctrine are at the full dimensions of Exposition the very Milennial or thousand years Kingdom of Christ that I think upon the comparing of Scriptures I have vouch'd and argued it cannot be denyed and as a Complement of all I have adjusted to those Illustrious Scriptures the Prayer we so generally acknowledge by the Name of the Lords prayer in the Explanation of it and proved it to be the Prayer of and prepared for that Glorious Kingdom of Christ as also by eminent Scriptures the Lords Supper to be the Sacrament of the Kingdom I hope by the good Hand of God towards me to be so assisted as to make Publication of these with the great and confiding Expectation that since I have had so great cause to believe no one sees Reason to chastise the Discourses I have publish'd and that the Divine Administrations of these latter Times are going on to justifie them they will be serviceable as Go●ds to the enquiries of greater Masters of Assemblies and their every way ●ore acceptable Researches into these things to the greater hastning of the Glory and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and the fall of his Enemies to be his Footstool by the earnest Prayers of his Churches and Saints and that in the mean time they will be as Nails fastning those Tents and Pavilions of Princes who are to serve the King of
Kings and Lord of Lords in their Station For I am sure they are given from one even the chief Shepherd and Bishop of his Church Jesus Christ I am not enclin'd nor have ever had a Temptation to represent the Prophesies of Scripture as a Doctrine of Blood. I am sensible what Spirit Christianity is of to its greatest Enemies Christ came not to destroy mens lives but to save them I expect a Battel of Christ that shall not be as of the Warriors with confused noise and Garments rolled in Blood but with fewel of Fire pure and clean Holiness a pure Ether of Justice and Righteousness for in Righteousness he Judges and makes War and that in the mean time there shall be no more use of Instruments to destroy than the most Righteous and just Constitutions and Governments of Nations allow For the Angels of the Vials upon the Anti-Christian State are cloathed with Linnen pure and white and their Breasts girded with golden Girdles their Vials full with no other wrath than of God Almighty Rev. 15. Yet not offering to be particularly definitive I Avow in the general Yet Eight years and the Kingdoms of this World shall become the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ and Papacy and Mahometanism shall sink down before Him his Monarchy shall then begin its Succession although his glorious Investiture shall not be till seventy five years after In which time The everlasting Gospel shall be preached by a new Mission equal in speed and effect to that of the Apostles and more universal symboll'd therefore by an Angel flying through the midst of Heaven bringing in the fulness of the Gentiles and effectual to the Conversion of the Jews upon which Saviours shall come upon Mount Sion and destroy the whole race of Pagan Mahometan Anti-Christian Edomites and the Kingdom shall be the Lords ADVERTISEMENT IF any please to assist in the Publication of the whole Designation they shall receive Proportionably It consists of the Scripture Line of the Kingdom drawn from the first Sabbath to the thousand Years Sabbatism The Song of the Kingdom or Solomons Prophetick Song adjusted to it The Doctrine of the Kingdom or Demonstrative proof by Scripture the Kingdom of the thousand Years is the Resurrection or Day of Judgment The Prayer of the Kingdom or the Lords Prayer prov'd principally to look at that Kingdom The Sacrament of the Kingdom or the Supream aim of the Lords Supper argued to be at that Kingdom T. Beverley Revel XVII 16 17. And the Ten Horns thou sawest upon the Beast these shall hate the Whore and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her Flesh and burn her with Fire For God hath put into their hearts to fulfil his Will and to agree and to give their Kingdom unto the Beast until the words of God shall be fulfilled I Have in a Discourse Published Twelve Months past explain'd Gods Command to come out of Babylon and prov'd the explanation of this and the neighbouring Prophesie as having it 's direct Aspect on the prostitute Roman Communion by such Arguments as have never been so much as attack'd in a time when there was both all advantage and keenness against what ever was offered contrary to that Interest how weak or trifling soever it might seem and it is probable They would have that Discourse go for such It is wonder therefore if the Arguments would have born it they were not at least expos'd to scorn and laughter but Prophetic Truth in this matter is too solid to be so fasten'd on This Prophesie Imports the great Revolution of those Ten Kings and their Kingdoms our own and those which lie all about us that were known for several Hundreds of Years to have been devotely united to the Roman Catholick Church as they delighted to Style it and to the Papal Supremacy as Head of it these very Kings and Kingdoms shall hate that Adulterous Church made Infamous in this Prophesie by the Name of the Whore and shall Treat her with the greatest Hatred Indignity and Aversation and God will set Judgment before them as in the Case of the Jewish Ezek. 23. Aholibah and they shall execute greatest severity upon it as eating her Flesh by Slaughter and Burning her with Fire And all this they shall do as is Implyed when the words of God are fulfill'd That is when the time determin'd by God for the giving their Kingdom to the Beast is expir'd till then they agree in one being under an Enchantment to the Whore to give their Kingdoms to the Beast that bears her that he might bear her with the greatest Granduer and State his Head rising up with these Ten Horns These Symbolical Names are given to the Papacy and the Ten Kings for the stupidness of their Idolatry and the Cruelty of their Persecution The time God had allotted to the Beast was Forty two Jewish Months making 1222 Years as another Prophesie assures us so long the Papacy was to continue from the time of this Authority to be accounted from 475 and at the same hour the Ten Kings receiv d their Kingdoms in Sacred Register or Prophesie at the Cessation of the Roman Western Empire This time is also call'd as given to the whole Anti-christian Revel 12. Apostacy Time Times and half a Time At the Morning of the half Time as Christ arose on the Morning of his Third Day Some Beginning ●3● of those Ten Kings began to hate the Whore and Revok'd their Kingdoms from the Beast This was when Luther first rose up Ann. 1517. Yet so great Kingdoms as we know France Spain Italy Germany Poland and Portugal continue their Subjection to him In them also the Prophesie shall be accomplished when the words of God shall have their last fulfilling that will be at the Year 1697. For as each Time is Three Hundred Sixty Years so proportionably the half Time is one Hundred Eighty Years Take them to begin at Luthers appearance 1517. they necessarily end at 1697. the very observation of which gives the expectation of that Year Credence For none can deny if Time Times half a Time are equal to 1260. Years The half Time numbers 180. None can deny the Reformation dawn'd 1517. which things joyn'd together make whether we will or no a great Climateric of 1697. a Year of great Remarque as the Hundred Eightieth or half Time from the Reformation for if a part of the Ten Kings Revok'd then as in the Morning All must at the Evening For when the words of God are entirely fulfilled this hating the Whore must be fulfilled also and that is at the full end of the half Time 1697. These things I have more fully opened and proved in that Command out of Babylon as also in the Scripture Line of Time. I only prepare for the present Discourse by a Summary Repetition of them My Intention now is to Remarque upon the present wonderful Doing of God in this Nation and to