quo tempore quippe ut praedixerat Apostolus amoto illo qui obstitit Homo peccati filius perditionis coepit revelari atque a revelatione illius numera 666 quem Spiritus Sanctus dicit esse numerum Hominis aeque ac animalis sive 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quo summa imperia a Daniele pridem designabantur devenies in annum quartum Hildebrandi sive Gregorii VII Christi scilicet 1076 quo ille primus Imperatorem excommunicavit potestatem Imperatoris constituendi sibi arrogavit En numerum Hominis hoc est illius qui astu sapientiâ humanâ huc se succesioresque suos provexit En numerum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sive bestiae i. e. Illius qui Imperium summum per Bestiam quartam scilicet denotatum jam ad se successoresque suos plene transtulerat Vide hic nascentem Antichristum vide ad 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 assurgentem vide quoque potentiam dantem primae Bestiae Quippe per Papam quam postea Imperator exercuit obtinuit Potestatem Apocal. 13. 12. Sed vide tantum imaginem potestatis ipsi restitutam v. 14. Nec enim ab illo tempore recuperavit unquam Imperator plenum absolutum Imperium vel vide Imaginem Imperii ad Papas translatam i. e. Eos in similitudinem Imperatorum pleno frui Imperio sibique arrogare quae habentur v. 15 16 17 c. quod autem additur v. 18. Hic est sapientia annon iterum observare jubemur aliquid magnum prae caeteris egregium Quid autem tale nisi in quo totus Apocalypseos cardo vertitur in quo autem magis quam in exploratione declaratione magni illius Antichristi verti ille judicetur Vis iterum recognoscere unde ortus Antichristi sive Bestiae in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 suâ numero 666 designatae sumendus Respice Apocal. 12. ubi Draconis i. e. Romani Imperii Paganici immicitia adversus Christum ejus Religionem Bellum exitus describuntur cui tamen sub sinem dicitur Terra i. e. Terrestris potestas opem tulisse Contigit hoc quum Imperatores Decretis suis rescindebant Haereses fluvium illum quem serpens projecerat ex ore suo post foeminam sugientem in desertum quibus polluere Ecclesiam voluerat quod nescio annon satis commode reseratur ad Constantini tempora qui Ecclesiae pacem primus restituit vel ad generalia Concilia Imperatorum potestate indicta quibus Haereses istae tam enormes damnabantur quod tempus si excedat tempus captae Romae adeoque non concurrat penitus cum ortu Antichristi id ex eo contigisse observandum quòd ad fugam Faeminae quae Regno Antichristi contemporanea est extendere se debeat I am afraid lest this most learned Man in this whole Chapter hath suffered himself to be drawn away by Conjectures that are too uncertain and therefore without replying any thing thereto I leave it to be enquired whether the whole Matter may not rather be referred to Hildebrand or Gregory the seventh in whom seems to be fulfilled whatever Paul in his Epistle to the Thessalonians 2. 2. 3. c. hath foretold of the Man of Sin or the Son of Perdition and that we no way doubt but that he is there designed the Holy-Ghost as it were points with the Finger at it Rev. 13. 10. He that leadeth into Captivity shall go into Captivity he that killeth with the Sword must be killed with the Sword Here is the Patience and the Faith of the Saints which he likewise thus prefaces v. 9. If any Man have an Ear let him hear And why all this unless it were some great thing he thereby pointed at But what great thing but the leading him into Captivity who led into Captivity But who was it who led into Captivity but the Roman Emperor who himself at the taking of Rome which happened in the Year of Christ 410 Honorius then being Emperor in the West may be understood to be led into Captivity Then it was Alaricus King of the Goths took Rome after which time the Roman Empire began to be so lessened that nothing thereof besides the Name and Shadow was left remaining since which time as the Apostle had foretold he being taken away who hindred the Man of Sin and Son of Perdition began to be revealed Now from the Revealing of him reckon 666 which the Holy-Ghost saith is the number of a Man as well as of the Beast whereby the chief Empires were long ago designed by Daniel and you will come upon the fourth Year of Hildebrand or Gregory the Seventh viz. of Christ 1076 in which he first Excommunicated the Emperor and arrogated to himself the Power of constituting the Emperors See the number of a Man i. e. of him who by humane Craft and Wisdom did thus advance himself and his Successors See the number of the Beast i. e. of him who had transferred to himself and his Successors the chief Empire held out by the fourth Beast See here the Birth of Antichrist see him rising up to his full Maturity see him also giving Power to the first Beast For now it was the Emperor obtained that Power from the Pope which he ever after exercised Rev. 13. 12. But see only the Image of Power restored to him ver 14. for from that time the Emperor recovered a full and absolute Empire or see the Image of the Empire transferred to the Popes i. e. them after the likeness of the Emperors enjoying full Empire and arrogating what we read ver 15 16 17. c. whereas it is added ver 18. Here is Wisdom Are we not again bid to observe some great and eminent thing And what is it is so but that on which the Hinge of the whole Apocalypse turns And in what can this be more than in the searching out and declaring that great Antichrist Would you again know whence the Rise of Antichrist designed in its Maturity by the number of 666 is to be taken turn to Rev. 12. where the Enmity of the Dragon i. e. the Roman Pagan Empire against Christ and his Religion his War and its Issue are described which a little before the end of the Chapter the Earth i. e. The Earthly Power is said to have helped Now this happened when the Emperors by their decrees abolished Heresies i. e. That River which the Serpent is said to have cast out of his Mouth after the Woman flying into the Wilderness with which he would have corrupted the Church which I cannot tell whether it may not be well applied to the times of Constantine who first restored Peace to the Church or else to the General Councils summoned by the Power of the Emperors whereby those so enormous Heresies were Condemned which time if it exceeds the time of the taking of Rome and so doth nâ—… altogether agree with the Rise of Antichrist it is to be observed that that happened hence
Dieu authoritativement en Christ ministerialement par Foy par Esperance par repentance par Charité par obeissance de parole en l'homme participativement La 6. iniquite de tromper avec prestiges La sixiéme iniquité est en ce qu'ils servent esperent jusqu'à la fin de leur vie aux sus-mentionnées iniquités couvertes specialement jusqu'à l'extreme onction le Purgatoire resvé en sorte que les ignorans grossiers perseverent en leur erreur leur donnant à entendre qu'ils sont absous de leurs pechés quoy qu'ils ne les quittent jamais de franche volonté pour esperer la remission des pechés la vie eternelle Et cette iniquité est directement contre l'onziéme le douziéme article de la Foy. CHAP. VI. How long this Eclipse the Church or at least great part of it was to suffer was to continue IN answer to this Enquiry it must be consider'd that the Rise and Growth of Antichrist must be taken in to make up the full Period For 't is not concerning his Continuance or Duration after he came to his Maturity but concerning the whole time or Age of Antichrist that we here put the Question Now there is Nothing wherein the Spirit seems to speak more expresly than it doth in this Matter I mean in those places where the Reign of Antichrist is foretold And 't was by his Reign this Eclipse was to happen to the Church Thus Dan. 7. 8. We are told that the little Horn that was to come up among the ten by which 't is on every hand agreed Antichrist is to be understood and before whom there were three of the first Horns pluckt up by the roots i. e. as 't is explain'd v. 24 25. that other King for by Horns He tells us so many Kings were to be understood that should rise after the Ten and be divers from the first and subdue three Kings and speak great words against the most High and wear out the Saints of the most High and think to change times and laws should have these given into his-hand until a Time and Times and the dividing of a Time That same Period which Revel 12. 14. and almost in the very same terms is assigned to the Woman to whom were given two wings of a great Eagle that she might flee into the Wilderness there to be nourisht for a Time and Times and Half or the dividing of a Time and that that we might not mistake what we were to understand both by One and the Other the same Flight of the Woman into the Wilderness is said to be for a thousand two hundred and threescore days which taking a Time for a Year which is usually the Comment put on it Times for two years and half or the dividing of a Time for half a year exactly correspond to each other A thousand two hundred and threescore days being the same with three years and a Half And both the same with 42 Months the time allotted for the giving the outward Court of the Temple to the Gentiles and for the Holy Cities to be trodden under foot Rev. 11. 2. Which is but another Explication of the reign of Antichrist As also is that thousand two hundred and threescore days assign'd to the two Witnesses to Prophesie in Sackcloth to denote the mourning State of the Church under the Oppressions and Cruelties of Antichrist sufficiently described in the following part of that Chapter and ascribed to the Beast v. 7. called v. 8. Sodom and Egypt For that gross Corruption of Manners and barbarous Tyranny that shall be found in Antichrist who under the same stile Ch. 13. 4 5. hath power given to Him to continue 42 Months And if for the great Tyranny and Impurities of life the Names of Egypt and Sodom so for the Idolatry that should then obtain under the reign of Antichrist that of Babylon or the great Whore be likewise given Rev. 17. 1. 5. And she as such said to sit on the Scarlet colour'd beast full of names of Blasphemy having seven Heads and ten Horns the same beginning continuance and ruin must attend both i. e. both have for all this the same Period of 42 Months So that there is no doubt but a fixt time for the Continuance of this Eclipse in the Church is set A time as for the Impiety Tyranny and Idolatry of Antichrist so for the Patience and Faith of the Saints for they are but the several Epocha's of these I have been mentioning I do not suppose this Impiety Tyranny and Idolatry of Antichrist in its heights the whole time of its duration For there is as well the gradual Encrease and Wane as the the total obscurity of an Eclipse It s arriving to its 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or heighth we observ'd before from the 13 th of the Revelations where we likewise took notice of the mark the Holy Ghost set upon the number of the Beast and offer'd something new but all from the context in the Explication of his Number of 666 And as to its last Period and Determination that is what we suppose to be coucht under these different reckonings of a Time Times and half or the dividing of a time of 42 Months and 1260 days And if so It will then only remain to ascertain what day And if so It will then only remain to ascertain what the duration is of which we are to construe these several Computations i. e. whether we are to take a Time Times and the dividing or half a time for 3 natural years and a half the 42 Months or 1260 days which is the same with the former for so many natural days neither more nor less Or whether we are to take them all i. e. the days contain'd in 3 years and a half or in 42 Months or expresly 1260 days for so many Prophetick days i. e. For intire years according to that of Numb 14. 34. After the number of the days in which ye searched the Land even forty days each day for a year shall you bear your Iniquities even forty years And Ezek. 4. 4 5 6. Lye thou also upon thy left side and lay the Iniquity of the House of Israel upon it according to the number of the days that Thou shalt lye upon it Thou shalt bear their Iniquity For I have laid upon Thee the years of their Iniquity according to the number of the days three hundred and ninety days so shalt thou bear the Iniquity of the House of Israel And when thou hast accomplish'd them lye again on thy right side and thou shall bear the Iniquity of the House of Judah forty days I have appointed thee each day for a year And that it is to be taken for so many entire years or prophetick days I think will scarce be doubted when we shall have examin'd these following particulars 1. Whether to confine the great Events of the Church to
and shall be given up to Eternal Blasphemy bitter Execrations and Cursings the lot of the Damned and being Cursed for Ever But when this shall be will be still the great Enquiry and what to answer to it is difficult for as Christ speaks when the Elders of the People and the chief Priests and the Scribes asked him Art thou the Christ If I tell you shall I say I say it not but if God if Christ if the Holy-Ghost should tell you you will not Believe Luke 22. 67. For it is God it is Christ it is the Holy-Ghost who have already told it it is declared with all the certainty that a Mystery can be declared in this Book of the Revelation The Rise the Progress the Downfal of Antichrist is foretold and yet forsooth we must be tender in the Point and not so much as dare to say that Antichrist is come who or what he is and where is his Seat The Angel may tell John Rev. 17. 7. c the mystery of the Woman and the Beast that carrieth her which hath the seven Heads and ten Horns may shew the place from whence he cometh and whither he goeth ver 8. With all the particularities of his Reign may shew what the seven Heads and ten Horns are when and where to arise ver 9. 11 12. And for whom to drudge ver 13 14. may shew the Extent of the Beast's Empire over Peoples Multitudes Nations and Tongues ver 15. And lest after all any mistake should be about his Seat may so point out the City of his Residence that but one City in the World can answer the Description And that is the City which reigneth over the Kings of the Earth and the City that so Reigned when John saw the Vision the City that hath ever since so Reigned is Rome the Angel I say may thus tell John the Mystery of the Woman and of the Beast but we must be sure to let it be a Mystery still and fix it any where but where it is Oh the shame of the Cowardize of the Christian Oh the reproach of those who have Eyes and will not see But are they willing who ask the question to have it resolved What can be plainer than that 1260 Years is the date of Antichrists Reign This being the time that is allotted to the little Horn Dan. 7. 25. This the time Set for the giving theoutward Court to the Gentiles and the treading the Holy Cities under Foot Rev. 11. 2. This Being the time for the two Witnesses to Prophecy in Sackcloath ver 3. This Being the time that is set for the Flight of the Woman cloathed with the Sun into the Wilderness Rev. 12. 1 6. This being the time in particular for the Beast with seven heads and ten Horns to make War with the Saints Rev. 13. 5 7. Only when these 1260 Years were to begin seems the Difficulty but neither is that so obscure but we may easily point at it I speak not so as to point to the Day or Year because 1. It may be we have no such exact Chronology that we can depend upon for such express and minute Particulars Or 2. Supposing the Masters in this Art should not fail yet we must consider that all great Transactions have a time to come to their Maturity or End and it will be hard for us to fix the very Critical Minute where matters are to be accomplished by Degrees As I do not think that the Fall of Antichrist will be in a Moment no there is to be a Harvest and Vintage Rev. 14. 15. 18. A time to begin to put in the Sickle and may not that have been at the Reformation 'T was certainly a considerable Harvest was then reaped and a time to reap all down This being observed I make no doubt but that it will not be so obscure but we may point at it and as our Lord said Mark 13. 30. may boldly pronounce so near are we to the Completion of these Prophesies this Generation shall not pass till all these things be done And first as to the outward Court of the Temple being given to the Gentiles and treading down the Holy Cities under Foot when could that be but when the Gentile or Heathen-Worship first crept into the Church And as to that if we consult History we shall find reason to fix it not but that it was sooner offering at as we have already observed in the fifth Century it being then as we noted out of Theodoret that the Worship of Saints the Doctrine of second Intercessors and Relicks c. was so far advanced It being then also that Leo the first began so far to exalt his See above those of other Bishops as to call it Cathedram Petri qui appellatur Petra fundamentum the Chair of Peter who is called a Rock and Foundation and to call Peter the Doorkeeper of Heaven the Arbiter and Judge of who were to be bound who to be loosed and then ascribes the Power and Authority of St. Peter to his own Chair and is angry that in the Case of Eutyches as is before there observed they did not reserve the matter to him and therefore pretends he was not rightly Condemned calls himself Ecclesiae Catholicae Episcopum Urbis Romae the Bishop of the Catholick Church of the City of Rome with many other the like Excesses which certainly may be one sense of treading the Holy City under Foot thus to exalt him above all others And then for the tme of the two Witnesses Prophesying in Sackcloth where can we begin that better than in the Testimony which from that time those who were sound in the Faith bore against these and the like Excesses Rather from the time that the two Testamennts God's faithful Wisnesses the Holy Bible began in its Authority to be deprest and and the Fancies and Inventions of Men to take place This was their putting on Sackcloth but so as from that time they never did nor ever shall cease to Prophecy in it till they have Prophesied down all their Enemies Rev. 11. 3 c. The Word of God in the Mouth of his faithful Servants hath and must always witness for him and that with those Effects which are there ascribed to these i. e. of being the Instruments to denounce God's Judgments on those who despise the Warning but in their Witnessing there is another 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Test and that is let their Prophesying in Sackcloth begin when it will yet it must end when the Beast which ascendeth out of the bottomless Pit shall have made War against them have overcome and killed them Rev. 11. 7. i. e. Whenever Antichrist shall have so much Power to banish true Religion as to all outward appearance quite to ruin and destroy the sincere Professors of it so that there is no longer the Face of a Church or any publickly to bear Witness as Christ saith Luke 21. 28. When those things begin to come to
viz. Because it was to extend it self to the flight of the Woman into the Wilderness which is Contemporary with the Reign of Antichrist This however it dropped from my running Pen I presume to give as I then set it down and as it will appear to be the great Hinge on which all turns in the Explication of the Apocalyptical Writings and what I have pursued in the following Discourse I reasoned also with the same Person viz. Monsieur Desgallesnierres formerly Minister of Mans in France now of one of the French Churches in Westminster on some other Heads in which I found my self so much to differ from that Excellent Person his worthy Countryman Monsieur Jurieu I mean particularly as to the sense of the first Vial which he makes to consist in the Corruptions that then broke forth in the Romish Church whereas I am apt to think it ought rather to be applied to the Plague that was sent as the Punishment of such Corruptions in the Irruptions of the Saracens As also in the fourth sixth and seventh Vial I cannot but differ from that great Man as may be seen in the following discourse that I fall in with him in the second and third is but agreeable to my Notion on the first in which if the Saracens infested the men that had the mark of the Beast in their own Country the men that had the mark of the Breast are in judgment permitted to attempt the revenging the Injury in the Country or Territories of the Saracens under the second and third Vial. And if in the same time I farther offer the great Plague that the Waldenses and Albigenses at that time were to those who had the mark of the Beast I hope 't will be no darkning of knowledge to leave it to the choice of the Reader which he thinks fittest to pitch on That I have consulted with other Authors such as the Fathers Histories Councils and other Writers that was but necessary for the informing my self of the State of the Romish Church the Romish Greek and Mahometan Empires with the Histories of the several Princes and Countries in any of these in order to the knowledge of those great Events and Circumstances of all sorts that might conduce to the Explaining these Important Truths But that I have not every where mention'd my Authorities was at present to ease my self and the Reader as not knowing but that a discourse of this nature if it should happen to find acceptance in the World might draw farther enlargements from me hereafter in which it would be requisite to be more exact as to the Quotations There are I confess some other Discourses on this Subject which I cannot say I have not seen though it was long after I had in effect finished this Treatise and as I before said I was unwilling to peruse any thing that might Prejudice or be a Bar to my own free Thoughts and it is but late that they came into my Hands and that upon the occasion of some Notions communicated by me to the Learned and my worthy Friend Monsieur Allix who thereupon spoke to me of Dr. Cressener's and Mr. Beverly's Books both of them very ingenious Men but utterly differing in their notions from what I here present As also he hath given me very high Expectations of what the profoundly learned Bishop of St. Asaph hath or is preparing on these Subjects but found me still under that Stiffness that believing what I have here written to be of a Piece I was unwilling so much to be acquainted with what that Excellent Prelate hath to make the World happy with when he shall please to make it publick Only having as I before said received Mr. Beverly's Book I could not but be very much pleased to find him though upon different Grounds from what I go on fix in a manner the same Period for the Ruin of Antichrist he fixing it in 1697 without saying what part of the Year it is in which he fixes it whereas my Computation makes it to be either in the later end of 1696 or the middle of 1697 for I place it in 1697 and a half after the substraction of the odd Days in the different Computations or if the fraction of Hours be taken out about the end of 1696 no great difference of Calculation though the Foundation on which we go be altogether different And I cannot but adhere to my own his notion of the Months spoken of in the Prophesie being Jewish Months seeming to be a little precarious and the number he sets of 475 not being so proper to the time of the ten Kings or Horns rising up as 455 or thereabout on which I pitch For though on the supposition he goes it may well enough point to the Cessation of the Empire it will not so well agree to the rise of the Beast and the ten Horns with it But I will not too much controvert the matter with that Zealous Person I cannot but rejoice to see his Assurance that the Event will Correspond with his Calculation nor can I be dissatisfied that it falls in with mine I shall not need to say much more by way of Preface only I wish his particular Applications to any private Prince may not be as far from the Mark as Mr. Mede's was of Gustavus Adolphus But it may be for I would lessen no Man's Labours on this Argument what is severally and in so different a manner performed by us may be but like several Arrows shot by several Hands at the same Mark if we all or any of us hit may that which ought to be the Mark of all our Studies Crown all viz. The Glory of him who is the God of Prophesie and who if he commanded St. John in one place to Seal those things which the seven Thunders uttered and write them not as being obscure and mysterious and to be kept as such when first revealed Rev. 10. 4. Hath likewise commanded in another not to seal the Sayings of the Prophesie of this Book for THE TIME IS AT HAND Revel 22. 10. Amen Amen Introduction WHEN I first entred on this Work I had it in my thoughts to have replied both to Preface and Book but through a very great and long Indisposition in Health I was not able to make that speed I intended in the Design and was greatly pleased to find my self prevented in several parts of it by the Learned Pens of those who had so successfully ingaged therein Nor did I question what hath since happen'd but that a very little time would produce a full answer to every thing that was material in the whole Collection though should there not have been a Syllable more offered in the Controversie than what the Author had given me occasion to speak to from the Preface I am apt to think there would be little reason to boast his Monuments of Antiquity the Gibeonitish Craft of old Sacks upon their Asses of old and rent Wine-bottles of
pass then look up and lift up your Heads for your Redemption draweth nigh the Epocha of it is set and it is but three days and an half i. e. So many Years and an half and Deliverance will come the People and Kindreds and Tongues and Nations shall see their dead Bodies three days and an half and shall not suffer their dead Bodies to be put in Graves ver 9. And therefore which I note by the by that last Persecution is not to be Universal for if it were where would be the People and Kindreds and Tongues and Nations which should not suffer them to be buried No as it is ver 11. the Spirit of Life from God shall enter into them and they shall stand on their Feet and great Fear shall fall on them which see them So that were there no other prediction of the End of Antichrist's Reign in this whole Book than this alone whenever this comes to pass it is easy to see how short his time is and being so we cannot wonder as it is Rev. 12. 12. He should have great Wrath. Again As to the time of the Womans Flight who is cloathed with the Sun and hath the Moon under her Feet and upon her Head a Crown of twelve stars into the Wilderness where it be proper to date the beginning of it but after the Serpents casting out of his Mouth Water as a Flood that might cause her to be carried away of the Flood i. e. When after the ceasing of the ten persecutions the Devil endeavoured to fill the Church with Heresies those are the Flood cast out of his Mouth and when he could no longer Prosecute his Rage with open Violence to try what could be done by making her persecute herself i. e. As it is in the Parable by those Tares he sowed in the Field destroy the good Seed and this seems to look to that Deluge of Arianism which came in upon her in its full Torrent but against which the Earth the secular powers pious Emperors Constantine Theodosius Junior c. came into her Aid and helped her as by their interposing for her present Rescue so taking Care for her future safety herein in particular by calling the four first general Councils by their Authority to condemn that and the other Heresies which grew up under it the last of which was Anno 451 and from this time or thereabouts till I find reason to change this opinion I scruple not to reckon the Woman in the Wilderness whither that she might Fly were given to her two Wings of a great Eagle i e. of the Eastern and Western Empire both which belonged to the Romans whose Standard that is This I say seems to be that date of the Churches Wilderness-Condition in which she was to be nourished for a time and times and half a time the same measure with that of 1260 Days from the Face of the Serpent and it is observable if I may so speak that the Eagle it self flew along with her into his Wilderness it being not long after that Rome was taken the second time and but twenty four Years when Augustulus was forced by Odoacer to renounce the Empire but of this by the by Once more As to the time of the Beast's rising to make War against the Saints Rev. 13. 7. That Beast which as as it is ver 12. exercised the Power of the first Beast before him Where can that be more probably fixt than where the Holy-Ghost hath as I have already observed with so many Remarks fixed it viz. After the taking of Rome Rev. 13. 4. 10. And the gradual expiring of its Soveraignty that being then taken away which was to let as the Apostle to the Thessalonians expresses it till removed And that however the taking of Rome were so notable a Period we may not just fasten it to the point of Time the Holy-Ghost gives us another note which will bring this nearer to the time where it is to be fixed and that is by making the rise of the Beast and of the ten Kings to be at the same time 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 at one and the same hour 't is Rev. 17. 12. the Chapter in which he expresly Interprets this Mystery 10 St. John ver 7. c. And when that was History will easily resolve We have already observed it 't was in or about the 455th Year of Christ Nor will the account be different if we take it in the Words of the Angel Dan. 12. 7. Holding up his Right-hand and his Left hand unto Heaven and swearing by Him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time and times and an half i. e. That till then the Power of the Holy People should be scattered but then an end was to be put to it by Michael the great Prince which stands saith the Angel speaking to Daniel for the Children of thy People i. e. For the Jews who were then to be on their Restauration but so as I have before offered it in this Treatise that some time is to succeed for their full coming in possibly that Interval which is afterward notified ver 11. where it is said that from the time of the daily sacrifice shall be taken away and the Abomination that maketh desolate shall be set up there shall be a Thousand two hundred and ninety Days and whereas it is added Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to the Thousand three Hundred and five and thirty Days I am apt to think that is the Perâ—od that will fully accomplish the Calling of the Jews and fulness of the Gentiles till the end of which Daniel is told that he shall rest and stand in his Lot at the end of the Days Which end if the Abomination that maketh desolate be the same with Idolatry brought into the Church in that degree which we have observed about the Year 455 will be about the Year 1715 to which adding for those other two Periods mentioned by the Angel i. e. what makes 1260 to be 1290 i. e. 30 Years then we shall have for the Yeas there signified 1745 or what advances the said 1260 to 1335 i. e. 75 the whole will be 1790 and as the Angel so say I Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to that time for it will be a Blessed time for the Church of God and the Glory of the Gospel One Remark more I have to add to this before I leave it that the several Periods we have been mentioning for the ending the Reign of Antichrist fall in likewise with what we read Dan. 8. 14. 'T is the Answer is there given to the Question put by one Angel to another asking How long shall be the Vision concerning the Daily Sacrifice and the transgression of Desolation to give both the Sanctuary and the Host to be trodden down but returned to Daniel in these Words And he said unto me Unto two Thousand and three Hundred Days then shall the Sanctuary be cleansed For consider