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A66069	Babylons ruine, Jerusalems rising set forth in a sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons on the 25 Octob. being the day appointed for the monthly fast, solemnly to be observed / by Henry Wilkinson ...	Wilkinson, Henry, 1610-1675.	1643 (1643)	Wing W2220; ESTC R40697	33,450	42

not stand long after for ch 47. 1. God sayes Come down and sit in the dust c dost thou think to stand when thy gods be down So Ier. 50. 2. speaking of Babylons destruction it is said Bel is confounded Merodach is broken in pieces her Idols are confounded her Images are broken in pieces And Ier. 51. 44. God sayes I will punish Bel in Babylon then it followes the wall in Babylon shall fall and ch 48. 7. speaking of Moabs captivity hee sayes Chemosh shall goe forth into captivity with his Priests Chemosh was the Idol of the Moabites Thy gods O Rome are captivated banished scorned Rome look to thy selfe thou canst not stand long the gods are 〈◊〉 out of their strong holds spoken of Dan. 11. 39. i. e. out of the Temples which are the Ecclesisticall holds dedicated to the true God and the Mahuzzims Deo Sanctis as Master Mede very well expounds it in his Apostasie of the latter Times Now we see that the very names of Saints set up with God and assigned to dayes and places are almost cast off and the Images of Saints which are strong a Crosses have been esteemed Fortresses and Ammunition whence that usuall expression among the Antients munire signo crucis And Constantius Ma●ssa inve●giling against 〈◊〉 for demolishing Images 〈◊〉 them 〈◊〉 at● muni●ones ve●gios● cultus holds too are broken down Wherefore as L. Florus said concerning the taking of Carthage after Carthage none need bee ashamed to be conquered b L. 2. c. 7 Post Cart 〈…〉 c. So I say after the Conquest and captivity of the gods of Rome Rome need not blush to follow The very Heathens when they besieged a City c 〈◊〉 sets down the Charme used against 〈◊〉 l. 〈◊〉 c 8. in the first place they charmed the gods of the place and then they doubted not of the City The gods of Babylon are charmed and therefore it cannot be imagined that Babylon should hold out long 7 The Propheticall Calander in which the time of the ruine of Babylon and the building of Sion is foretold seemes to intimate that the time is neare approaching both for the one and the other For there is the same measure of time the same synchronismes of the 1 woman i. e. the Church of God living in the wildernesse which is for a time times and halfe a time And 2 of the seaven-headed beast i. e. Rome which should reigne 42. months And 3 of the witnesses prophesying in sackcloth 1260. dayes Rev. 11. 3. 12. 6. Rev. 13. 5. Then 4 there is the same measure of time of the treading under foot of the Court and the holy City by the Gentiles Rev. 11. 2. As for time times Mr. ●rightman in Apoc. and halfe a time it is expounded c. 12. v. 6. compared with 14. to be three years and a halfe And three yeares and a halfe containe Mr Mede in 〈…〉 42. Months and likewise in three years and a halfe there be 12●0 dayes Now it is frequent in Prophesies to set down a day for a year so then by that account the witnesses sufferings under the Beast and the Churches persecution by the Whore and the tyranny of Antichrist reckoning a day for a yeare must be 1260. yeares which is just so many yeares as Christ Preached dayes as is conjectured Now some take the beginning of this account from Hildebrand for then Antichrist was very high Anno 6●6 according to the number of the beast Rev. 13. 18. I will not undertake Mr. Mason in a Prof. to his Histo to determine when we should begin and when to end the account but it is cleare that there is the same beginning and the same ending However take your levell where you will there cannot be many yeares remaining of 1260. not many weeks of the three yeares and a halfe not many dayes of the 42. Months I may adde to this that the Vialls that are poured forth already upon Babylon and the evident Declinations of the Papall state are as so many steps to ruine the deadly wounds given to the Whore-ridden Beast are so many prologues to the Tragedy of Rome It would be too long to go over all the particulars severally 8 I might adde the Predictions of Astrologers and those that study the Almanack of Heaven written in visible Characters * Nuntius Prophet It were worthy to bee considered who they are that he charges with Rebellion and Treason and Murthers and Thefts c. whom also he cals by that opprobrious name of Ca●uli Calinarii pag. 28. there is one that is so farre from favouring your proceedings that he hath most unworthily reproached you in a book set forth by him in which he hath collected some choice observations give him his due out of the most learned Astronomers which seeme to give great light to all that I drive at a Alsted Spec. Mundi insert Chronol in Encyclop absolatâ Septimâ hâc revolutione Pla●ctae redeunt ad sua initia unde finis regnorum Mundi à pe●itis rei Astronomicae codigitur Encyclop pag. 46. fol. edit 1630. in Chron. b Sabbatismi quandam o●cultam rationem obtinet speaking of this seventh revolution prae caeteris peculiare magni momenti quid denuntiat Tych. Brahe Alsted and he out of Tycho Brahe sayes that from the yeare 1603. to 1642. the world will receive great mutations because in those 40. yeares comes to a period the seventh revolution of the Planets besides the numbers in Daniel and the Apocalyps confirme the same a Tycho Brahe sayes that this seventh revolution hath somewhat peculiar and singular above all the former hee speaks as if it pointed at a Sabbatime and that by this meanes a preparation or protasis were made to the Apocalypticall thousand yeares Alsted speaks peremptorily concerning the conjunction of Saturn and Iupiter in Aries in February last 1642. portendit sayes he novi alicujus imperii revolutionem It is remarkable what Kepler said concerning the influence and effects of that portentuous starre in Serpente which appeared in Octob. 1604. and vanished in Febr. 1606. a Kepl. de Stella Serpent p. 6. Haec particula resp●●●t for●an conc● ●ordrectanum 148. session●u celebratum 618. Magnum 〈◊〉 Ang●c qu●m 〈◊〉 conventu● praesenti hoc anno 1642. he sayes that Ecclesiasticall Discipline shall be restored by a publike Councell the Church shall be reformed licentiousnesse of youth shall bee cleane taken away and the madnesse of the people shall be restrained and an Aristocracy Collegiorum which may be capable of more constructions shall prevaile The Author of Nunt. Prophet sayes that he may ayme either at the Synod of Dort 1618. or laugh not Nuntius The Assembly of Divines now called Keplers Prediction is very strange and is yet to be fulfilled and although some scorn that it should be meant of this Assembly yet even they if vengeance suffer them to live may see the businesse