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Antichrist stormed, or, Mystery Babylon the great whore, and great city, proved to be…
Antichrist stormed, or, Mystery Babylon the great whore, and great city, proved to be the present Church of Rome wherein all objections are fully answered : to which is added, the time of the end, or a clear explanation of Scripture prophecies, with the judgment of divers learned men concerning the final ruin of the Romish Church, that it will be in this present age : together with an account of the two witnesses, who they are, with their killing, resurrection & ascension : also an examination and confutation of what Mr. Jurieu hath lately written concerning the effusion of the vials ... : likewise a brief review of D. Tho. Goodwins exposition of the 11th chapter of the Revelations, concerning the witnesses, and of that street in which they should lie slain, proving it to be meant of Great Britain : and a brief collection of divers strange prophecies, some very ancient / by Benj. Keach ... ; to which is annexed, a short treatise in two parts : 1. The calculation of Scripture numbers by Scripture only, without the help of humane history, 2. Upon the witnesses, giving light to the whole book.Antichrist stormed, or, Mystery Babylon the great whore, and great city, proved to be the present Church of Rome wherein all objections are fully answered : to which is added, the time of the end, or a clear explanation of Scripture prophecies, with the judgment of divers learned men concerning the final ruine of the Romish Church, that it will be in this present age : together with an account of the two witnesses, who they are, with their killing, resurrection & ascention : also an examination and confutation of what Mr. Jurieu hath lately written concerning the effusion of the vials ... : likewise a brief review of D. Tho. Goodwins exposition of the 11th chapter of the Revelations, concerning the witnesses, and of that street in which they should lie slain, proving it to be meant of Great Brittain : and a brief collection of divers strange prophecies, some very antient / by Benj. Keach ... ; to which is annext, a short treatise in two parts : 1. The calculation of Scripture numbers by Scripture only, without the help of humane history, 2. Upon the witnesses, giving light to the whole book.
London: printed for Nath. Crouch, 1689
Chapter 2: Wherein is clearly proved that all the marks of mystery Babylon doth fully meet in, and…
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8. Is it not a strange kind of Spiritual Intoxication, that such a number of the Inhabitants of the Earth, should believe, that 'tis no Sin to Lie, Swear, and For-swear, to Kill, Slay, and Murder, such they call Heretics (tho never so Godly) if it be for the cause of Holy Church, with a thousand things of the like nature, which the people do believe, ⟨p. 64⟩and dare not disown upon their Salvation, but boldly adventure to engage at all opportunities to Fight, and make War, burn Cities, lay waste Countries and Kingdoms, and destroy by Massacres, and all manner of Murdering ways, all Ranks, and Degrees of Men, who oppose the horrid principles of this vile Church, and cursed practices of these Sons of Belial. Nay they will go boldly to their own deaths, when convicted and justly condemned for such like villainies, and deny to day what they were convicted of yesterday, and tho never so notoriously guilty, yet will take it upon their Death, they are as innocent as the Child unborn; what can this be, tho they drink it down as sweet Wine, but an Infusion of the rankest and most deadly Poison that the lowest cellar of the bottomless Pit can afford, the very Wine of the Whores Fornication, and the most dangerous Intoxication in the World? Which is attended with this aggravation, i. e. the best medicines of the wisest Physicians will not recover them; for Babylon having made the multitude drunk with this sort of Poisoned Wine, how rare is it to have any to come to themselves, or to their right minds again? And to shut up this Head take this argument.
8. Is it not a strange kind of Spiritual Intoxication, that such a number of the Inhabitants of the Earth, should believe, that 'tis no Sin to Lie, Swear, and For-swear, to Kill, Slay, and Murther, such they call Hereticks (tho never so Godly) if it be for the cause of Holy Church, with a thousand things of the like nature, which the people do believe, ⟨p. 64⟩and dare not disown upon their Salvation, but boldly adventure to ingage at all opportunitys to Fight, and make War, burn Citys, lay waste Countries and Kingdoms, and destroy by Massacres, and all manner of Murthering ways, all Ranks, and Degrees of Men, who oppose the horrid principles of this vile Church, and cursed practices of these Sons of Belial. Nay they will go boldly to their own deaths, when convicted and justly condemned for such like villanies, and deny to day what they were convicted of yesterday, and tho never so notoriously guilty, yet will take it upon their Death, they are as innocent as the Child unborn; what can this be, tho they drink it down as sweet Wine, but an Infusion of the rankest and most deadly Poyson that the lowest celler of the bottomless Pit can afford, the very Wine of the Whores Fornication, and the most dangerous Intoxication in the World? Which is attended with this aggravation, i. e. the best medicines of the wisest Physicians will not recover them; for Babylon having made the multitude drunk with this sort of Poysoned Wine, how rare is it to have any to come to themselves, or to their right minds again? And to shut up this Head take this argument.