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A77670	A brief survey of the prophetical and evangelical events of the last times: VVherein that which principally is insisted on, is the prophetical little horn, or man of sin, and evangelical beast, and his seven heads and ten hornes. Shewing by the Scriptures what they be, when their rise, what their work, how long their continuance, and their end and ruine. Much differing from former and common interpretations hereupon. Wherein also those prophecies are briefly touched which concern the persecution of the saints, the falling away of the churches, the night of darknesse, the virgins going forth to meet the bridegroom, the mystical whore, the preaching of the Gospel of the kingdome to all the world, and the gathering of the Jewes into their own land. Being a portion of the paines in searching of the holy Scriptures by several members of the congregation of Orpington in Kent. And now published for the comfort of all those that have an interest in the Lord Jesus Christ, and wait, look for, and long after his coming, Tit. 2. 11, 12, 13. / By Capt. John Brovvne a member of that congregation.	Browne, John, Captain.	1655 (1655)	Wing B5117; Thomason E826_18; ESTC R207735	43,228	58

Assistance treat upon will be the opening of the 12 chapter of the Apostle Johns Visions and Revelations which as we shall not declare rash and sudden thoughts thereon so we desire it may not be suddenly expected from us but rather to wait a while for light is breaking forth daily and that which may be apprehended for a truth to day to morrow may easily be discerned to be a mistake It is with us as with Military Persons upon duty in the Field especially those that are upon the Guard who looking about them continually but chiefly upon break of the day discover variety of Objects as they apprehend as there are quot homines tot Sententioe so many men so many minds or opinions for one saith that such a black thing that is at a pretty distance is a Man another saith a Tree another a Horse another this or that when as possibly within a short time after the day dawning more and more they plainly perceive that they were all in an error though then when they gave their opinions they all might be confident that what they said it was it was and then as we apprehend no evill in them because they knew not the contrary though not possible that one Object upon the near approach or by day light could be the same thing that men of severall judgements said it was So it is with us in respect of what we have already written or shall for many before us in times of darknesse have given their interpretation on these Subjects In a contrary sense and saying that these Prophesies have all or the most part been fulfilled long since but we who are come near to the dawning of the day of the Lord Jesus doe clearly discern that th●se that went before us and writ on these Subjects were much mistaken and those that come after us will have a clearer and fuller discovery of these things then as yet we have which then we hope will appear evidently to the eyes of all those whose eyes of their understandings are enlightned by the Word and Spirit of God to be such Now to God onely wise and our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour who hath not left us comfortlesse but hath sent us His holy Spirit into our hearts to guide and direct us in the way of Truth be Glory Praise and Dominion for ever Amen FINIS a 1 Sam. 17. 4. b 1 Chro. 20. 8. c 1 Sam. 17. 4. Persecuton a 3. Judges 11 b 3 Judges 30 c 5 Judges 30 d 8 Judges 28 2. Falingaway of the Churches 3. The night of darkdnesse Rom. 11. 19 20 21 22. The Virgins go forth 2 Cor. 11. 2. 2. The Mysticall Whore of Babylon The preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdome The gathering of the two Tribes to Jerusalem Jer. 30. 18 The rise of the Beast with the ten Kings The Beast who he is First Head Gen. 10. 8 10 11. Gen. 11. 1 2. Esay 23. 13 2d Head 2 Ki●gs 18 13 15 16. 2 Kings 19 8 v. 9. and 14. v. 15. v. 36. Sir W. Rawle●gh first part f. 476. Sir W. R. f. 482 483. 3d 〈◊〉 Sir W. R. ●irst part f. ●07 Sir W. R. First part f 541. and 551. Sir W. R. 4th Head third Book chap. 2. Sir W. R. 3. book 3. chap. 7. P●ragraph 5th Head Vide Sit W. R. 4. book chap. 2. from the beginnlng of Alexanders Raign to his end Josephus 12. book first chapter Sir W. R. 5 book f 338. Sir W. R. 4. book f. 232. 6th Head The Romans Sir W. R. f. 665. Daniel 7. ●●●mstone ● 35. Generall History of Spain f. 132. Grimstone ● 280. Howe 's Chronicle f. 50. Grimstone f. 266. Grimstone f. 381. 7th Head Calling of the Jewes The ten Hornes Feet and Toes The place where Jer. 50. 39 40. What they will doe The time of his Raign how long after the Saints are taken up His Ruine

some better satisfaction after a more serious consideration of the Scripture Arguments on both sides This had come forth in publick sooner if the Clarke to the Company of Stationers had not refused the Entrance of the Coppy in their Hall Book for the poor a Widdow Printer because it was not licensed by some of the old Licensers there being no Law in force for it and if there were what a sad condition would it be for poor inquiring Souls to be deprived of true light and knowledge because the Licensers are of a contrary Judgement or subscribed by one of the Wardens of that Company the one refusing to put to his hand the other her Adversary from whom she could expect little good so that Might and Partiallity are as opposite to Good and as active to the hinderance of the poor Widdow and Fatherlesse as ever The Lord teach us all to see the evill of our wayes and the vanity of our doings and repent thereof whilst we have time least our Master call us to an account before we are ready for it Readers if ye shall reap any profit by this little Treatise render unto the Great God and our Lord Jesus Christ a Tribute of prayse for the same for from him have we received all the Light and Truth thereof if any thing therein shall upon the Touchstone of the Word be found not to be the true Mettall we bring it for let that be imputed to us who have our failings as well as others be as wise as the Noble Bereans to search the Scriptures that we have brought for what we affirm and the Lord give you understanding therein so prayeth he for you That have an interest in the Lord Jesus J. B. ERRATA PAge 2 line 1 record read recorded l 30 stability r abillety p 4 l 2 not to be left out l 4 gratified r practised l 32 fall r fell p 5 l 19 to others r to others not p 7 l 22. Women r Woman p 9 l 26 r Monarchy p 17 l 5 this r his l 6 Tysris r Tygris p 18 Berod●sh and Merodash r Berodach and Merodach l ult r Tir●aka p 29 l 5 r of Agustus Cesar The PASSAGES of PROVIDENCE In Relation to the Actings of Men and fufferings of the Saints both Iews and Gentiles from and after the death of our Lord Jesus Christ are many and full of variety both as to the time past and to come which we shall endeavour to lay down and clear as they lye in Order as near as we can to succeed THe first thing that was to befall the Saints after the death resurrection and ascension of the Lord Iesus and after the gifts of the holy Spirit were given forth according to his Promise and command to his Disciples to wait for in Jerusalem 24. Luk. 49 compared with the 2. Chapter of the Acts and 4. verse is Persecution which is agreeable to what our Saviour had foretold and recorded by the Apostle Iohn 15. Chapter 20. verse If they have persecuted me they will also persecute you And the Evangelist L●ke declares as much 21. Chapter 12. They shall lay their hands on you saith he speaking the words of the Lord Jesus and persecute you delivering you up to the Synagogues and into Prisons being brought before Kings and Rulers for my Names sake Yea the Lord Jesus tels us before we become his Disciples that if we will be his Disciples we must hate all our dear and near relations in comparison of him of loving them and take up our crosse and follow him 14. Luk. 26 27. And this not to be the portion of ordinary Disciples but also of the most eminent among them read the words of the Lord Jesus record by the Evangelist Luke in his 11. Chapter 49. ver. Therefore also said the wisdome of God I will send them Prophets and Apostles and some of them they shall slay and persecute And this persecution is not to extend onely to the Saints who are believers in Christ but also to the woman the Church of the Iews which is to bring forth the man child which are believers in the Lord Jesus both Iews and Gentiles of which we shall write more fully hereafter 12. Revelations 13. and to the remnant of her seed by the dragons making war with them 12. Rev. 17. which as it had its beginning on Abel the second person begotten after the Creation so it will continue to be the portion of Gods people till their last enemy is destroyed Gog and Magog 20 Rev. 8 9 but with some breathing time as was in the dayes of the Judges viz. a Othniel b Ehud c Deborah d Gideon and others as also of Solomon and a short time in the Apostles dayes 9 Acts 31. and will be during the whole reign of Christ for one thousand year upon the earth for then that enemy of the Saints who was and will be the chief cause of all the persecution that they did or shall go under in any age of the world will then be chained up 20. Revel 1 2 3. But will be loosed afterwards for a little season as in the latter part of that third verse before quoted compared with the 7 8 9 verses of that Chapter Therefore the people of God are to take notice of his wisdom and goodnesse to them in that he knoweth how much better persecutions and afflictions are for them than rest and prosperity and accordingly administers the same to them in a proportion to the stability he hath given to every one of them Now as we have proved that persecution is the portion of the Saints in this life because they are not of the world 15. Iohn 19. So the next thing that was to befall the Churches was their falling away from the Truth of that Doctrine that was taught them by the Lord Jesus and his Apostles and this the Apostle Paul foretels the Church at Thesalonica that there should be a falling away before the man of sin would be revealed 2 Thess. 2. 3. The occasion whereof is not so much the times of persecution as the Churches neglect of the Light the Word that is left them by which they ought to walk in the times of darknesse The beginning of the falling away of the Churches was before Iohns writing of the book of the Revelations in which the Church of Ephesus is exhorted to Remember from whence she is fallen and repent and do the first works ar else saith Christ I will come unto thee quickly and will remove thy Candlestick out of his place except thou repent 25. Chapter at the 5. verse The said falling away ushers in the 3d subsequent thing that we are to treat on that is the night of darknesse which was foretold by our Lord Jesus The night cometh saith he when no man can work 9. Iohn 4. Also the same Evangelist in his 12. Chapter 35 and 46. verses relateth more expressions of our said Lord

she is the discription of her you will find in 17. Rev. 3 4 5. verses 2. The place of her abode see the 18. verse of that 17. Chapter where the holy Spirit unfolding unto Iohn the mystery of those things mentioned in that Chapter tells him And the Woman which thou sawest saith the Angel is that great City which reigneth over the Kings of the Earth Which City comparing Scripture and History together we shall find to be and it could be none other but Rome the chief Seat of the sixth Head or Roman Monarchy as we shall more fully clear hereafter the Lord assisting us 3. What she would doe consider what the Apostle Paul did by the Spirit foretell what should fall out in the latter times in his second Epistle to Timothy Chap. 4. 1 2 3. whose words are these Now the Spirit speaketh expresly that in the latter times some shall depart from the Faith giving heed to seducing Spirits and Doctrines of Devils speaking lies in hypocrisie having their Consciences seared with a hot Iron Forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth Which words spoken of some in the Plurall Number cannot more properly be applied to any then to the Popes of Rome typified by the Woman setting upon a scarlet coloured Beast R●vel 17. 3. And we may appeal to the hearts and consciences of all true Christian Readeis hereof whether that which the Apostle wrote in those three verses to Timothy hath not been fulfilled by the Papall Power of Rome Again let us see and consider one other Prophesie concerning her acting which the Angell shewed unto the Apostle Iohn and which he saw Revel. 17. 6. And I saw the Woman drunken with the bloud of the Saints and with the bloud of the Martyrs of Iesus and when I saw h●r I wondred with great admiration Now if we may give any credit to Mr. Fox his History of the Martyrs of Jesus which we shall not question that Prophesie hath been fulfilled to the purpose of which many of the poor Saints in this Island in the dayes of Henry the eighth and Queen Maries time were witnesses thereof 4. Her Judgement with the Persons o● Powers that shall execute it take one clear Scripture for it in the 17. Revel. 16. And the ten Hornes saith the Angel unto Iohn which thou sawest upon the Beast these shall hate the Whore and shall make h●r desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and burn ●er with fire Object But some may say how can this Scripture clear or prove that which you bring it for it speaking concerning the hating of the Whore not of the Woman therefore this verse may rather seem to have relation to the first verse of that 17. Chapter where the Angel tells Iohn He will shew him the Iudgement of the great Whore th●t sitteth upon many Waters and in the 15. verse of that chapter the Angel tells him that the Waters whi●h thou sawest where the Whore sitteth are Peoples and Multitud●s and Nations and Tongues Answ. The Book of the Revelations is full of Mysteries and Prophecies and not easily to be understood not onely upon the first but also not upon many readings thereof for if it had how comes it to passe that those Interpreters thereof whose writings are extant are so dark in those things that they undertook to open and clear as in this Age we find some that have contradicted others that went before them in the unfolding of these Mysteries and we question not but the Lord will give a clearer light to others to make more clear those things which in this short Treatise we have in some measure though darkly unfolded But as to the Objection we say that by comparing one place in this chapter with another and by clearing some improbabilities if not impossibilities in it that which we have affirmed concerning the Judgement of the Woman or Whore will evidently appear to be truth First consider whether the Title Whore be not proper to this Woman in the 4. verse of that 17. chapter she is said to have a golden Cup in her hand full of the abominations and filthinesse of her fornication Now judge whether she that hath committed Fornication doth not justly deserve the Title of Whore to be given her Secondly for the improbability of it consider whether its likely that the beast unto whom these ten Hornes give their Kingdome would be acceptable unto him when as they had destroyed the Seat of his Empire Babylon if so be that the word Whore in the sixteenth verse had relation to the word great Whore in the first verse or Whore in the fifteenth verse 5. The fifth thing to be considered of and that will fall out before the taking up of the Saints is the preaching of the Gospel of the Kingdome Math. 24 14. The Lord Jesus speaking to his Disciples in answer to the three questions propounded by them to him in the third verse begins with the first telling them what should fall out in after times and amongst other things tells them That this Gospel of the Kingdome shall be preached in all the world for a witn●sse unto all Nations and then shall the end come This Gospel of the Kingdome was begun to be preached by the Lord Jesus himself as the said Evangelist Mathew●ath recorded in the 4. chapter 23. And Iesus went about all Galilee teaching in their Synag●gues and preaching the Gospel of the Kingdome also in Mathew 9. 35. you have it there recorded again of his so doing And this he doth not onely make a part of his own work but also when he sends forth his twelve Apostles he commands them saying As ye g●e preach saying the Kingdome of Heaven is at hand Mathew 10. 7. Which also Phillip one of the seven Deacons preacheth up as appeares in Acts 8. 12. And that chosen vessell of the Lord the Apostle Paul he declares and preacheth the same And now behold I know that yee all among wh●m I have gone preaching the Kingdome of God shall see my face no more Act. 20. 25. Yea the last words and actions that are recorded of him in the 28. Acts 30 and 31 verses doth declare as much the words are these And Paul dwelt two wh●le years in his own hired house and received all that came in unto him preaching the Kingdome of God and teaching those things which concern the Lord Iesus Christ with all confidence no man forbidding him Now this Gospel of the Kingdome ceased to be preached after the falling away of the Churches and hath continued so for many Ages but the time drawing nigh of the coming of that Kingdome it is begun to be held forth again and must be preached in all Nations before that time come which was not done in the primative times by reason a great part of the now known world was not then discovered