Figure as this Prophecy hath given it can be the Monarchy we are in pursuit of although such Monarchy may continue till the Kingdom of Christ shall succeed But now how exactly does the Roman Monarchy Answet in the point of Succession For first the very Prophecy of Daniel tells us that the Kingdom of Alexander should be divided to the four Winds and then that it should be pull'd up for others besides Those It was divided for the Four and yet remain'd the same Dan. 8. 8. Dan. 11. 4. But it was to be pull d up for others so as to cease to be a Monarchy Now those others besides must be they whoever they were who devour'd and stamp'd on the Residue with Legs of Iron Dan. 2. 40. as in the Image with Feet of Iron as by the fourth Beast in the vision of the Beasts and they must be Romans Dan. 7. 19. For it is very well known that the Grecian Partite Monarchy came near to the days of our Lord Jesus Christ in the Flesh and yet not so near as to make any fair Interpretation of so much as the God of Heaven setting up the Spiritual Kingdom of the Gospel in the days of those Kings pourtrayed in the Image if that divided Grecian Kingdom had been the Fourth and Last and yet again so near that it is most known in all History that no other Monarchy could come between that Grecian Monarchy and the Birth of Christ but the Roman Monarchy onely so that if the Kingdom of the Stone out of the Mountain had been onely a Spiritual Kingdom Yet still the Roman Monarchy must be the fourth This seems order'd as on purpose to divert Interpreters from the divided Grecian Kingdom as the fourth Monarchy and necessarily to shape them on the Romans And it is most evident not onely in all History that the Roman Monarchy was then come to its Zenith in the Reign of Augustus but especially in the sacred Histories of the Gospel for there came out a Decree from Caesar Augustus at that very Time * Luk. â— that our Lord was Born. And that it particularly cover'd the Jewish Nation the onely People of God at that Time to which Prophecy had so singular an Eye And the decree from Augustus was to Tax or describe the whole Oecumen or Habitable World as by the poll Was not this a Fourth Vniversal Monarchy from the Babylonian the Persian the Grecian and was it not Roman c But further to make it more known at the death and Crucifixion of our Lord The Sentence was given by Pilate the Roman Substitute or Governour and the Jews declared on the occasion They had no power to put any one to death So that the Roman Vniversal Monarchy at that Time is become an Article of Faith Crucified under Pontius Pilate declares the Roman fourth Monarchy And now that the Evangelical Kingdom by the Birth Ministry Death Resurrection and Ascension of Christ was set up by the God of Heaven that we might not think This Spiritual Kingdom was the Fulfilling of Prophecy There was no Breaking of this fourth Kingdom by it nor of any other Kingdom as is Foretold in these Visions But Christ altho' he own'd himself King of the Jews yet Joh. 18. 36. declar'd his Kingdom not of this World nor from hence That is not from below but to come down in the Jerusalem from above He did not therefore disannul Caesar's Kingdom nay He Establish'd it by that Command Render unto Caesar c. as it were in care that Prophecy might be Fulfill'd concerning that fourth Monarchy Agreeably after the Ascension of Christ Paul as directed by Acts 25. 1â— God made that Famous Appeal to Caesar and all the Apostles taught subjection to the Roman Powers This shews a spiritual Kingdom was not the design of Prophecy but an Imperial For when Constantine as an Vniversal Emperour declared for Christ It was then said with high Doxologies the Kingdom of our God Rev. 12. 10 is come as an Emblem of that Kingdom yet to come Thus far I have then undeniably as I must be Bold to say Reason'd That seeing the Kingdom of Christ is not yet come some of these four Monarchies must be in Being For they are a Calendar to it that it can be onely the fourth Monarchy that is thus in Being For the Babylonion the Persian the Grecian which were the three first even by name in Daniels prophecy are past and gone off as in the successive Dominion of Each The Roman then succeeding the Grecian and being so Great a Monarchy after it as hath appeared must be the Fourth And even because it is the Fourth it must be in Being because the Kingdom of Christ is not yet come And it must therefore continue in Being till that Kingdom comes On the other side we may assuredly Argue that as the Roman Monarchy was in Being as an Vniversal Monarchy since the days of Christ so by the general knowledge we have of the World It continues in Being in the Roman Papacy and the Kings yet devoted to it It is therefore certain the Kingdom of Christ is not yet come as it is to come according to this Prophecy And thus much then we are sure of before hand that we cannot stir off from this very Roman Monarchy till we come to the Kingdom of Christ For if it were ever a fourth Monarchy there is no Monarchy after nor beside it according to this sure word of Prophecy that can be a Remaining Calendar to us to that Kingdom Because whatever Monarchy was the fourth Monarchy must continue to the Kingdom of Christ we must therefore run upon it as upon an Ecliptick Line given us from which there must be no variation And if we can hold the Footing we have hitherto found in the History of the New Testament by the Prophecy succeding it and to which the History leads us and in Agreement with Vniversal History we shall certainly come down with the Calendar we are upon to our own Times and know how near we are to the End of it and so to the succession of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. Posit 3 I come therefore to the third Position There is such an Idea of the Roman Monarchy in the Prophecy of the New Testament as will most exactly Correspond the Prophecy of Daniel in concert with most Agreed and Indisputed History and shew us whereabouts we are in this Calendar and how near to the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. But before I come to compare this Idea with the Prophecy and most known Roman History and thereby to Educe the Calendar as it goes on I must observe by way of premisal these Three Things 1. That the Prophecy of Daniel does not name the fourth Monarchy nor tell us what Monarchy or what National Cognomination it hath as it hath in some part of Daniels Prophecy as hath already appear'd told us that the Head of Gold or first Kingdom was
Universal Extent For whose sake such a Calendar of Monarchies was given To fore-tell which the Jews and Gentiles stood as one Body under the Shade of the great Tree Nebuchadnezzar And that this Dream of the Image might be the more Notable and Remarkable There was a Concurrence of all things that might make it so First in regard of the Vniversal Monarchy of the Prince that had the Dream whereby every Circumstance of the whole matter had an easie and almost a necessary passage through the most known parts of the World. It being given to the Prince himself it must needs be the more Notorious and the more Certain and to a prince not worshipping the True God It must be the more undeniable and free from the Suspition of a pious Fraud The manner of giving the Dream was by the ordination of Providence such as to cause the greatest Agony and Perplexity to his Thoughts For his Imagination was deeply Imprinted that a very Stupendious Dream had found a place in it And what yet it was was gone from Him which contributed exceedingly to the Notoriety of the Thing For first all the Magicians Astrologers and Wise men of Babylon were summon'd upon the Occasion When they came there was nothing offer'd them but a rude Apprehension of such a Dream whereas if the Dream it self had been told them They might have fastend some satisfactory however false Interpretation to it and so the thing have dyed When they could offer no Resolution in so difficult a Case there was to make the matter more Notable a decree to put them to death After all the King's perplexity and even Fury God gave him such a Resolution by Daniel as sav'd so many Lives which fix'd the thing yet deeper in all Mens Thoughts and gave Assurance that the King was fully satisfi'd within Himself That the Dream reveal'd to him by Daniel was the same that had Graven it self so deeply on his mind in his sleep And it was therefore ordered to be a Dream because according to the opinion of those Nations and also in the thing it self a Dream so exactly Fram'd under so great sense was least under the power of the understanding and therefore Divine and Immediately from God. Now that all these great Preparations and solemn Circumstances should be thus ordered and disposed by God without some High designation of God for the Glory of his own Kingdom and some very Admirable Prophecy and Course of Time lay'd out to it I appeal to any person that shall duely weigh and consider it whether it be so much as probable On the other side whether if there shall be other very weighty Reasons that such a Course of Time to the divine Kingdom is design'd This great Ceremony so immediately order'd by providence does not exceedingly concert with it and add to the Reasons otherwise drawn Seeing else All this Dvine state was to adorn a Heathen Prince's Dream concerning Heathen Potentacies and no change upon the Heathen world for the better nor any Accruement to the divine Kingdom hereby but onely those Temporary short Acknowledgments that dyed upon the Breath and Lips of that Pagan Prince that made them while neither Himself nor his Kingdom were Converted to the True God. Argu. 2 Although there was no End of Glory to the Divine Kingdom worthy the Magnificence of the Manifestation to the Babylonish Prince in this Dream short of the Divine Kingdom it self Yet taking the Divine Kingdom at the End there is a very great and Glorious Correspondence betwixt this Manifestation and the Divine Kingdom For at the Time when the Kingdom of God seem'd to be lost and swallowed up and to be even as it were none at all through the deep Captivity of the onely True people of God then in the World under this Babylonian King Yet to shew the surmount of the Divine Kingdom in its vertue and efficacies there is by the true and Supreme Monarch of the World a Dream so Rivetted into all the Imaginative faculties of this so great visible Monarch his Substitute and Servant that could not be by all the Pleasures and business of a Court forc'd from thence and which yet could not be so much as call'd into Knowledg what it was nor Expounded but by a particular Minister of the Divine Kingdom the Prophet Daniel All the Fatigues of the Astrologers Magicians and Wise-men the Seers of that great Prince being to no purpose in their Divination And this Dream retreived out of the dark of a Troubled but unknowing Imagination where it was written as in Marble in so indelible and yet secret Characters prov'd to be and was Acknowledg'd in the Inlightned understanding and not Incertain Imagination of this Prince to be a Prophecy of the uneasie Rest of his own Monarchic Power that was continually Over Turn'd Over Turn'd Over Turn'd * Babylonian Persian Grecian till He whose Right it is should come and take it out of the last Rest of it * Roman Even the Son of God Himself All which so wrought upon this otherwise Haughty Potentate that He made this Confession to Daniel Your God is the God of Gods and Lord of Kings and a Revealer of Secrets And as a further Acknowledgment He exalts Daniel as in a Representation of Gods Supremacy over the World to be over the Province of Babylon and Chief of all the Governouors and over all the Wise men of the whole Dominion A great Prophecy of the Subjection of Babylon it self to the Kingdom of Jesus Christ and here the Horn of Israel that seem'd Dead was made to Bud according to Ezekiels prophecy of this very Time as before argued c. 29. 17. And further that Miracle from Heaven so Enclosing his Servants in the Furnace with the Guards of Providence that the Flame was a Wall of Fire to defend onely and not to kindle upon them while it Burnt up their Enemies vindicated Gods Supreme Royalty over Nature and caus'd that Exorbitant power that durst erect such an Image for his own Glory and command the worship of it under a penalty so dreadful to proclaim the reverence of the True God under a more dreadful penalty And lastly God suspended this Monarch from his Throne and Levell'd him with the Beasts by depriving him of his Reason till he came to such a humble Publication of the Name of God as was the nearest to True Religion that could be not to be determin'd to be True Religion And it is most observable that as the Son of God appeared to this very first of the Four Monarchs as it were in person who was the Supreme Monarch truly so call'd that his Right to the Kingdom designed Him might be the more understood and Testified So Daniel a Jew had his Skirt taken hold off thus leading to the True God and his Kingdom and He himself with the other his Three Companions in the Patience and Kingdom of Jesus Christ had a promotion in that Babylonish Monarchy
in Nebuchadnezzars first Babylonian Kingdom there were those sudden Appearances of the Divine Kingdom in his Acknowledgments of God which Antichrist supplanting it made him the more exceedingly and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Antichrist 4. As a further Care of Prophecy concerning the Calendar of Time and the Interposal of the Christian Empire it gives us this plain Account of the State of the Roman Bestian Empire during that Christian Empire viz. That by Reason of the Christian Empire that was not Bestian nor any of those Heads The Roman Beast lay wounded and it is said the Wound was a Wound unto Death and a Wound with a Sword and a Wound in one of the Heads and that we may take further notice of the Wound It is said His deadly Wound was healed and he did Live. Rev. c. 13. Now this Wound hath been much mistaken by some Interpreters as if it were the Wound given by the Barbarous Nations invading the Empire of which in the next particular we shall find another Account But it is very plain because the Wound was in one of the Heads and that the Christian Empire upon which the Barbarians fell most peculiarly was none of the Heads It must needs be that the Wound intended was on the Pagan Imperial Head whom Constantine the Great and Theodosius the Great besides other the Christian Emperors so remarkably Wounded even unto Death that It never recovered in a purely Pagan but only in the Pagan Anti-christian Head. To which because of the Congenialness of the one to the other the Dragon is said in prophetic Language to deliver his Throne Power and Authority by way of Succession and to live and to be worship'd in Him. So that though we are not plainly told it was the Draconic Head which we found to be the Pagan Empire was wounded yet in that it is said The Dragon was cast out of Heaven that the Dragon gave his Power Throne and Great Authority to the Beast and was worship'd in Him the World wondring after the Beast There is nothing more plain then that it was the Pagan Dragon that was wounded by the Christian Empire coming next after it and healed in the Beast coming in as a Head. This then was the Wound that the sixth Head as Pagan Idolatrous and bloody could not maintain its Supremacy and Imperialism till the Antichristian Head succeeds it but an Empire a Christian Empire prophetic of the Kingdom of Christ rooting out Pagan Idolatry and advancing Christianity so newly persecuted to death by Paganism came between by which though the Empire continued yet the Bestianism of the Empire was ready to dye and had dyed but that there was a decree to permit it to be Heal'd and Reviv'd within a short space in the Antichristian Beast which could therefore be no other then whatever succeeded the Christian Empire in Roman Beastian Supremacy though as we shall find only in an Image of Supremacy and therefore must be the Papacy else the Wound were not Healed to this day which were most contrary to Prophecy as destroying the frame of the Bestian Monarchies in Daniel and the whole Image of Things in the Apocalyps of John. Now this Note of the Beast wounded is so great an assurance of the Care of Prophecy over the Calendar given in Daniel though this Wound was not revealed in his Prophecy as improper to it and not to its Time as can be given and makes us more certain of the Truth of it then if that occasion of its Care had not been as the Truth of a Prediction is more seen by taking notice of a preternatural Accident and foretelling it then if such an Accident had not been we are therefore to consider the Prophecy of Daniel and John as all one Prophecy of the Divine Spirit in both and as but of one and the same Author writing several Prophesies in several Times and filling up the former by the latter And thus all History agrees That the Christian Emperors came after the Pagan Emperors and disabled their Idolatrous and persecuting Power And that after the Christian Emperors came the divided State of the Roman Empire in several Kingdoms and Kings united in the Papacy and hath continued to this very Day which must therefore be the Beast with his Ten Horns though all be convey'd as it ought to be according to this Prophecy in a Mystery and in an Image or else the Revelation cannot be a True Prophecy 5. There is another principal Note that the Sacred Prophecy of the New Testament gives on purpose to shew that the Bestian-Antichristian-Roman Supremacy in the seventh Head call'd the Beast and his Ten Horns did not immediately succeed to that Pagan Beastian Monarchy but that there was the coming between of a Christian Empire and that the Bestian Kingdom that followed that Christian Empire was the Papal Kingdom the knowledge and regard to which is of so great moment to this prophetic Calendar that Prophecy hath taken so great Care in it and It is thus to be understood The Four Monarchies succeding one another as in the Image of a Humane Body the Succession must be as by way of kind Communication as is between the several parts of the same body And this was to shew one Idolatrous Spirit a Spirit contrary to the Kingdom of God and of Jesus Christ inform'd and intelligenc'd the whole from Head to Foot. But though these Monarchies were so united in one Spirit and therefore as in one Body yet to shew the contrariety of each succeding to each former Kingdom they are in another Vision represented as Four Salvage Beasts each latter ravaging on that in power before it Thus the Persian as by a Belluine Might vanquished the Babylonian the Graecian the Persian the Roman the Graecian as Daniels Visions c. 7. c. 8. and all History make notorious And thus it was determin'd by God that the Ten Kings that came in as Feet of Iron in Succession to the Legs of Iron and the Horns in Succession to the Iron Teeth should come in as by way of Leaving or Legacying or kind Communication as from part to part And so indeed the Pagan idolatrous Empire did as it were naturally and spontaneously resign and dye into the Antichristian rising out of it thus it is represented after a prophetical emblematical manner by the Revelation The Dragon gave its Throne Power and Great Authority to the Beast that is the Pagan Emperor to the Papal Antichrist what ever distance of Time there was between them and so they worshipped the Dragon in the Beast as aforesaid Thus it was as between the Congenial one Pagan and Papal Beast and the Legs and Feet of the Image But then as the Vision of the Beasts imports each Kingdom succeding the former as by violence so these Horns or Ten Kings came by violence into the Empire for so it pleased the wise and Holy Governour of the World it should be The Nations foreign to the Roman Empire
much sooner then others It is therefore on a Prophetical Account and on positive determination of the Time by Divine Authority God by whom Kings Reign and who dates Kingdoms as He pleases dated the Power of the Beast and the Power of these Ten Kings All to an Hour and He hath told us when It was It was when that peculiar Christian Empire of Rome He had set up was by his Providence superseded before that though these Kings were Kings and the Bishop of Rome Bishop of Rome yet they were Kings and the Pope of Rome Pope of Rome under one Imperial Head who stood by Divine Appointment as their Supreme Lord He was their Head by a Divine Right and They All under Him and in that Right in a dependence upon him even as Herod on Augustus though not in Fact for He who gives the Kingdoms of the Earth to whom He pleases declares so and tells us The Beast came into his Hour as an Eighth King when the seventh gave up and though the sixth Head or Pagan Emperor was gone off so long before yet as in the Water or Air when the interposing Body is removed the ambient Air and Water from every side immediately clap together so the Bestian Pagan and the Bestian Antichristian Kingdom does when the Christian Empire was done in the Apostles Phrase so full of this Sense Out of the midst Having therefore clear'd and made Good the Epoch of the Time Times Half Time I will now before I proceed to consider their extent shew how great the Agreement of what we have seen in the state of the Roman Empire since the Christian Empire in it was done out of the midst how great I say the Agreement of it with Prophecy is which will make good that Solid Substantial part of the Calendar and shew us How plainly Time hath run on according to the Aqueducts and Chanels foretold to it so long before in these following Observations Observat 1 Let us then observe the Papacy the Cardinalism the Episcopacy the whole Roman Hierarchy and their dependencies in so great numbers on the one side and on the other the several Kingdoms into which the Roman Empire hath been so long and is still parted with the warlike Kings and People thereof And I may appeal to all the World whether there could be a fitter Emblem or Representation on both parts then Feet part of Iron part of Clay What weaker then the one What more Potent and puissant then the other And yet notwithstanding the weakness of the one and the puissance of the other The Ten Kings Agreeing to give their strength Power and Might and their Kingdom to the Beast They make the Pope a Seventh Head of Roman Supremacy and Vniversality and the Hierarchy Feet Foundations of Government and of the state of the World by being mingled with the Iron however They do not cleave Surely this matter being so well known as to run into sense we see it with our eyes as to the Event and the Emblem as easie to be understood as Familiar as the Notices of Iron Clay Feet of which the Emblem is compos'd are The attent consideration then would convince even an Atheist of the Truth of Scripture Prophecy even a Papist that the Roman Hierarchy is intended how much more then may it convince Protestants The Kings have also made the Pope a little Horn They have given him Territories Guards Forces Revenues as a King pulling up the Gothick the Graecian the Lombardic power as Three Horns before Him wherein Martell Pipin Charlemaign and Ludoviâ—us pius were his great Benefactors But all this was but very inconsiderable in compare with the rest as to an Iron Potentacy were it not for the Spiritual Supremacy the Riches of which is Incomputable Therefore he Looks with the Eyes of a man as the only Infallible Seer of the Christian World He hath a Countenance more stately then his Fellows the other Ten Kings over whom he hath a Mouth speaking great Things in the challenges of Supreme Dominion as the Vicar of Jesus Christ and as in his place King of Kings and Lord of Lords He hath Times and Laws given into his Hand and a Calendar of Time peculiar to Him He hath been for several Hundreds of years the great Leviathan in the Christian World the Chief of the Sons of Pride and of the ways of Providence and God's Government of the World That a Horn so weak in its true Anatomy and Intrinsick value should have borne such a sway in the Empire and Governments of the Earth piercing even to the Indies and formerly unknown parts of it who that reads Daniel in compare with what he hath seen known read or even heard of the Papacy will not rather think Daniel of late years took the Portraicture and writ the Character of the Papacy then spoke of it at the distance of so many Ages before it But he was guided by Him to whom all Things past present and to come are an even Now. In the same manner let us reflect upon the Cardinalism Arch-Bishops and Inferior Clergy with their Innumerable Train of officers as on the Feet of Miry Clay the Beast rising out of the Earth more often in their originals not of the Blood of Kings and Nobles weak in their warlike Prowesse Prophets teaching lyes who are the Tail of Mankind Yet with these as with the Seed of Men poor weak Inconsiderable men sprung from the Earth The feet of Iron mingle themselves and make together the Feet of the Image as equally essential parts of Government and the Clay is as we say Cheek by Jole with them These Merchants of Rome become the Grands of the Earth I desire no other but a Free Impartial Frank Judgment upon the Evidence now given that the Papacy and Roman Hierarchy are most lively Represented by the long and so known Conjunction of the Powers of Clay in Conjunction with those of Iron the Kings and Princes lying within the Roman Dition Observat 2 Equal to the first is the second Observation wherein we shall find the present state of the Roman Empire tyed and linck'd to Prophecy both in Daniel and the Revelation in that great and Remarkable point of Agreement An Image made to the Beast and the Beast joyn'd so often after with his Image and the Beast and his Image Let us then reflect on the Famous Memoir of Prophetick History in the first universal Monarch the Golden Head of the primitive Litteral Babylon Nebuchadnezzar in conceipt of that mighty Image He had seen in a Dream so divinely expounded and of which Himself was the Head of Gold would be worshipped and obeyed in the Counter-point of that Image set up and whoever would not worship that Image was to be cast into a fiery Furnace In like manner the other Beast or the Antichristian Hierarchy to raise up the Papacy as another Golden Head of mystical Babylon said by way of Oracle and with lying Wonders
For if not we shall in vain call to the Mountain to Hide us and to the Rocks to cover us when the Great Day of His Wrath is Come The Prophetical Map of which Holy and Blessed State is too large here to present but it is necessary that a short delineation of it so far as is agreeable to support the last and most excelling part of the Calendar be given For in both the visions the vision of the Image and the vision of the Beast There enters at the end inseparably and no way possible to be divided a divine Kingdom of which the expressions are so full and high that it is self evident the grand Intendment of the Holy Spirit was by the four Monarchies to lead to that Supreme Kingdom that where They end That may begin which is of it self a great proof that if we are thus far right in the Calendar as the Evidence of Divine Revelation assures me we are We must be near so great and happy a Revolution the Complement of the Calendar and are now as on a Pisgah view of it For the Kingdom of Christ hath an immediate succession to the Times of the Beast even as the Bestian Kingdom and Times had to the Christian Empire The succession is immediate but the Illustrious Glory hath a Time of Preparation after the succession In the Face of all Prophecy This succession appears in Daniel's two Visions the Divine Kingdom follows the Feet and the Little Horn even so close as to be said in their Days of those ten Kings The God of Heaven Sets up a Kingdom Dan. 2. 47. as it were within them because so just at the end of their Time The Apostle Paul tells us The approach of Christ to the Bestian Times is so near that Christ blasts Him with the Spirit of his Mouth and brings to nothing the blaze of his Moon by the full Glory of his own appearance That Illustrious Man of Sin the Antitype of Antiochus the Illustrious is so out-shone that He is a Lamp put out in obscure Darkness In the whole view of the Revelation the Glory of Christ's Kingdom rises as the Beast falls and when He and his False Prophet are cast into the Lake or as Daniel speaks His Body deliver'd to the consuming Flames Then the Kingdom is given to Christ and his Saints as in full Glory They sit on Thrones and Reign with Him. But nothing is so express as the Oath of Christ as at the Morning of the Half Time or Reformation a beginning Glory Seal'd or stay'd in the Thunders seal'd till the end of the Half Time Christ solemnly swears at that Time There shall be after Time Times and Half Time allowed No more such kind of Time The false High Priest the Counterfeit of the True is not made without an Oath indeed But because he is but a Counterfeit He is cut off at his Half Time by an Oath also and cannot be a Priest any longer He is broken without Hand from Heaven As soon as ever the Oath takes place That Time of the former date of Times and Half Time is no longer it Immediately follows The Mystery of God that is the Glorious Kingdom of Christ so much and so long spoken of by the Prophets shall be immediately in Motion by it self to its complement and perfection Accordingly at the end of the Twelve Hundred and sixty days and of the Three days and Half the same as hath been prov'd with Time Times and Half Time There is as in their Days of those Ten Kings the appearance of the Kingdom of Christ in the Witnesses rising c. even just before the Blast of the seventh Trumpet And then the Seventh Trumpet sounds and immediately there are Loud voices in Heaven The Kingdoms of this World are become the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ The Kingdom is proclaimed and advances all the Time of the Seventy five years in which the Twelve Hundred sixty years become Twelve Hundred ninety years and then Thirteen Hundred Thirty five the Epoch of the perfectly Blessed state of that Kingdom of Christ All which lay'd together is perfect Scripture Demonstration of the Complement of the Calendar and of the Kingdom of Christ in its succession so near to us as 1697 and then rising to perfect glory And until that Time there is to be a continual prayer for and Expectation of such preparatory motions in the World as by which Bestianism shall not onely not be allowed to Regurgitate on any of the reformed Nations by any of their Princes Giving anew their power to the Beast that had Revers'd their power from Him but that the rest of the Ten Kings and Kingdoms shall hate the Whore And that within the Reformation it self that Synagogue Prophecy Brands as the Synagogue of Sathan that was always 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Friend to Primacy and to casting out of the Church on its unscriptural Canons should be bending to worship at Philadelphiaes Feet and thereby the Reformation become perfect and Illustrious Let us then take off our Hearts and Eyes from all worldly Glory whether Civil or Ecclesiastic which is now in its low West and adore the Glory of Christ in his Kingdom as the rising Sun now near its East and Morning Dawn As the Stars let every one move and even Fight in their Courses and help the Lord against the Mighty Let us wait for Jesus Christ from Heaven who before Pontius Pilate witness'd that good Confession of his Kingdom which though it is not of this World is yet of the approaching World to come whereof we speak and though it is not from hence or from beneath yet is the Jerusalem coming down from Heaven which he in his own proper Time now at Hand will shew who is Lord of Lords and King of Kings FINIS The Rationality of this Calendar in a Review and in Compare with the Numeral Calendar of the 2300 Evens Morns Or a Table of Time especially of that part of it within the foregoing Calendar and Explanatory of it so that its Truth is Evinc'd by iâ—â— Conformity to the Infinite Wisdom that hath made every Thing Beautiful in its Season THE Great Reason of All Time is the Allowance of space to the World for the variety of Action in it under the Government of supreme Providence whereby things are Roll'd this way and that way between the Kingdom of Sathan in the Apostasie of Humane Nature and the Restoration of it by the Seed of the Woman Jesus Christ until his Kingdom shall swallow up the Apostasie and appear in Glory which Appearance in Glory is determined by God who hath Reserved Times and Seasons in his own Power to Come â—igh upon the seventh Millenary of Time which is the Grand Sabbatism under the Son of Man the Lord of it who is also the Son of God. Time therefore being seven Millenaries in the whole as Inclusive of the Kingdom of Christ was for about the First Half